Ghyll talk:Dagger Seas
Wow. Given the recent state of the art, this entry is like a worst case scenario. I introduce all of this throw-away history for the sake of a cheap joke. But it's a joke I kinda like; If anybody is annoyed by The Habit of Coming Up With Long Names For Imperial Cultures That Could Just As Easily Be Anonymous, lemme know and I'll cut them from the entry. I just stumbled on the Cranee Historical Society thread after completing the entry...
--Joe Bowers 00:31, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)
Citation problem
All of your formal citations are to phantoms. You have to cite one actually existing article and two novel phantoms (which must be the only novel phantoms in your text). I find the hardest part of writing Ghyll entries to be finding the most relevant actually existing article (I fudged it in the Conflict That Is Not Happening by implying that the most important part of the article was the part removed by the Copy Editor). Picking just two novel terms to turn into phantoms is also difficult. --Jcowan 09:08, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)
Something else of a "mindbender" for me was discovering that I didn't actually need to create new phantoms, at least, if I understand the Rules now. As long as I reference two, as yet undefined, phantoms, I do not need to create new ones. --Doctor Phineas Crank 10:51, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)
Copy editor's note
"Eke" means "augment", as in "ekename" (which later became "nickname"), a name that augments your original name. So the phrase "eke out a meager [or meagre, if you're a Brit] living by X" means to augment the meager living you already have from some other source Y (farming, fishing, or what not) by doing X as well.
This may or may not be what you meant. Pkease fix. --Jcowan 09:21, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)
You got it. I spaced the whole Third Avazian War bizness. I'll fix the existing citations. I'd like some "This isn't good Ghyll" Commentary, though- There's been a lot of discussion about our aims recently, that I've missed, and I don't what to be the guy who swerves left after we've agreed as a body to turn right. (Also, the eke will be changed ASAP. Thanks for the help!)
--Doctor Phineas Crank 10:47, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)
Well, my suggestion may not be good Ghyll, but how about including where the Dagger Seas are in relation to something else which we know the location of? It might be nice, since you've done so much work on the geography of all this already, to know where the shore actually is in relation to, say, Folktown. Also, it would make a map easier.... --Doctor Phineas Crank 08:35, 28 Sep 2004 (EDT)
To be honest, I've been too scared to do this. Lemme check the WhereIsWhere... --Joe Bowers 09:09, 28 Sep 2004 (EDT)
