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Excavator

I created an avatar to help me explore this world I’ve created beyond the stories I’m already writing. From this meta-perspective, I hope to make those stories better. The avatar is an aspiring writer. When we first meet him (in an unfinished scene), he frequently visits a pub and drinks a bit more than is…

World-building essay: What is the metric time used by the System Compact?

I’ve posted a world-building essay for Patrons on my Patreon site. Here’s a teaser: “Just a hec.” Wait, how long is that? A hectoSecond is 100 seconds. That’s nearly two minutes. Did you know that a “moment” is 90 seconds? The people of the System Compact use a metric time in which the basic time…