Ghyll:Lexicon games

Ongoing Lexicons

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Exalted: Lexicon Of Elder Days

Key	Value
Date Started	January 2004 (???)
Date Finished	June 2004; ongoing (???)
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	141 / 24 +

Being a Cyclopedia of Ages Past. The Scholar-gods and wise Exalted of the Forbidding Manse of Ivy hold endless knowledge; here they gather to reminisce upon fallen times. You are someone with extensive knowledge of ancient times, collaborating with a number of your peers on the construction of an encyclopedia describing the past ages of Creation from the Primordial War to the Terrestrial Shogunate. Note: this Lexicon still allows submissions, but regularly scheduled play has since vanished. As such, there's no "official" finishing date; the project died during Summer 2004 when ExaltedWiki was down for an extremely long period of time and no one could edit any pages (it had been winding down for ages, though). In order to hopefully eventually finish the thing, anyone who passes through is encouraged to fill out any of the remaining entries (without creating any new phantom citations), even if they've never done so before.

• Visit Exalted: Lexicon Of Elder Days.
• To the best of my knowledge, the ExaltedWiki user FourWillowsWeeping began this project, but I appear to have sort of taken it over since I'm the only one still regularly writing entries, and you may feel free to contact me about it if you want. --Shataina 06:45, 3 Dec 2004

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Ghyll (Gamegrene.com)

Key	Value
Date Started	August 30th, 2004
Date Finished	Ongoing
Listing Last Updated	December 16th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	103 / 25 +

Ghyll is a world created solely by the players as the Lexicon is played: there were no preconceptions, planned genres, or previous source material to go on before the game started. Things quickly shaped up and merged during the first two turns (comprising nearly 40 entries). The current technology level is "roughly one of humorous fantasy", but there are often bleak undertones as demonstrated in entries such as the Agony uncle, Doggerel plague, and Justice Device. Note: LexiconTheRPG.com and these Lexicon pages are hosted by the same folks behind Ghyll. Since this Lexicon is ongoing (and intended indefinitely) counts and barchart are based on completed entries as of December 16th, 2004.

• Visit the Ghyll Index or use the items in the navigation bar.
• Contact Morbus Iff about this Lexicon.
• Turns are one letter per week, adjusted for holidays.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

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The Orbital Wars

Key	Value
Date Started	September 2004 (???)
Date Finished	Ongoing
Listing Last Updated	December 23rd, 2004
Total Entries / Players	72 / 13 +

We're currently researching the Orbital Wars, which means that each round, all the players write an entry on something related to the Orbital Wars, or the events leading up to them, or following them, or whatever tangets they desire, really. Example entries include Battle For Oubliette 2, the Church At Nine West, Dymetricists, Erasing The Impossible, and supplementary pages on concerning Who's Who, Where's Where, and When's When exist.

• Visit The Orbital Wars.
• Contact Kevan Davis about this Lexicon.
• Turns are one letter per week, possibly adjusted for the holidays.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

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Completed Lexicons

These Lexicons have been completed, and are probably not accepting new changes or entries.

Fangor Encyclopedia

Key	Value
Date Started	August 2004 (???)
Date Finished	September 2004 (???)
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	32 / 6

It is assumed that at the time this encyclopedia is compiled, the average technology of the civilized parts of Fangor is generally equivalent to the European Medieval time period. For those who are more familiar with Fangor, it is assumed that this encyclopedia is compiled before the beginning of events known as kelKhazem Roc (the conquest and rule of much of the civilized world by dwarves). This event marks the end of the Second Age, and takes place sometime around SA 1200. Fangor is a setting that emphasizes realism. In this case, realism is defined as being plausible and fitting in logically with the assumptions of the world. Everything should have a plausible explanation (even if that explanation involves magic).

• Visit the Fangor Encylopedia Lexicon.
• Contact Andrew Batishko about the Fangor Encyclopedia.
• "The game is played in 16 turns; turns end on Wednesday and Sunday."
• "Each author will pick a different letter group to use for their first turn."

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

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Lexicon of the Sphere of Breakwater

Key	Value
Date Started	May 2004
Date Finished	July 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	162 / 8

Breakwater is one of the oft-overlooked jewels of the Thousand Spheres, a motley collection of Realms with enough to enchant even the most jaded traveller. With nine Gates that connect to other Spheres, each in a different Realm, Breakwater is poised to be a crossroads - yet for some reason, it is not. The Library of All Worlds has convened a panel of scholars, both domestic and foreign, to create the definitive reference volume for the Sphere of Breakwater.

• Visit Lexicon of the Sphere of Breakwater.
• Contact Alexander Cherry about this Lexicon.
• Used the Rule of X (in short, entries for 'X' could be other letters).

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

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Nobilis: Lexicon Of Lord Entropy's Rule

Key	Value
Date Started	May 11th, 2004
Date Finished	June 22nd, 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	133 / 11

The Earth has long lain under the rule of Lord Entropy and his Code Fidelitatis as it fights the Valde Bellum, for good or ill depending on the viewpoint of the observer. A Rainbow Festival has been called to document the history, politics and features of the rule of the Council of Four (The Imperators who govern the physical side of Earth; led by LordEntropy and including Ananda, Ha-Qadosch Berakha and Surolam) and its impact.

• Visit Nobilis: Lexicon Of Lord Entropy's Rule.
• Contact Jere Genest about this Lexicon.
• "This is an abbreviated Lexicon, with 13 entries, with two entries a week."

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

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  9|                       *             *
  8|                 *     *             *
  7| *   *   *     * *     * *           *
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Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Lost 500 Years

Key	Value
Date Started	March 15th, 2004
Date Finished	March 31st, 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	96 / 16

The Earth lost 500 years of its history, a time of wonder and accomplishment that will never come again and is forgotten to all but the Society of Flowers. A Rainbow Festival has been called to document these lost years and their glories. The erasure of a period of about 500 years happened a little over one hundred years ago when human history was set back en masse by a rogue Imperator. One day it was the year 2400, and space-ships plied the Aetheric Currents between earth and the colony worlds. The next day it was 1900 again, and the world, the history books and all (well, enough) mortal memory had been changed so that it seemed normal for it to be 1900. Naturally, what has happened since then has not conformed to what happened between 1900 and 2000 the first time around.

• Visit Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Lost 500 Years.
• Contact Jere Genest about this Lexicon.
• "This was an abbreviated Lexicon, with only 8 entries, broken down as a telephone pad."

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Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Second Age

Key	Value
Date Started	December 22nd, 2003
Date Finished	February 21st, 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	164 / 9

The assembled scholars of the Rainbow Festival are famous for their colloquiums and encyclopedias of matters historical upon the World Ash. They have assembled to discuss the Second Age of Earth. The Second Age of Earth runs from Adam and Eve having their first child to the death of the Phoenix Family two thousand years later after Atrocity killed Heaven's gatekeeper.

• Visit Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Second Age.
• Contact Jere Genest about this Lexicon.
• Nobilis: Lexicon Of The Second Age was the first public Lexicon.
• Turn schedule was "a letter every two days."

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

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The Toothpaste Disaster

Key	Value
Date Started	April 1st, 2004
Date Finished	May 13th, 2004
Listing Last Updated	December 5th, 2004
Total Entries / Players	254 / 21

In the standard PARANOIA RPG, players become lowly Troubleshooters in service to The Computer. In this Lexicon game the players were nothing less than illustrious High Programmers who administered entire sectors of Alpha Complex. Last year the Toothpaste Disaster hit these Programmers' sectors. Fascinated high-clearance citizens across Alpha Complex sought to know more about this notorious event. The Computer created a fact-finding panel to investigate the origins, determine the causes, and implicate the traitors involved in this chaotic, mysterious, and wide-ranging disaster.

• Visit The Toothpaste Disaster.
• Contact Allen Varney about this Lexicon.
• Allen Varney is the creator of Paranoia XP.
• Players wrote two letters, due Mon/Thu, every week.

          Number of Completed Entries Per Letter

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 14| *   *     *             *     
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Other Lexicons

Either no language translation, deviated enough to be their own creations, or woefully unplayed.

• [http://www.rollespill.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=403&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

De Buldrende Fjellene] (Norwegian; December 10th, 2003 - June 7th, 2004; incomplete)

• SteamPunk (November 6th, 2004; lack of initial player base; derelict)
• uqbar (Italian; in-progress as of December 23rd, 2004; started April 2004?)
• Vrinthia (May 19th 2004; inspired by, but not, Lexicon; derelict)