Since there is currently a little debate going on how to write, I thought I would create a little exercise that should be simple enough, on world building. This is a basic skill any writer or game designer should have so you shouldn’t have any trouble with this. How it works is like this: Each person submits one or more paragraphs describing some aspect of the world that has been described thus far in the thread. A submission should be coherent and consistent with the rest of world described. An aspect that you can write about can be anything mentioned in a pervious post, it could be a place, thing, task, culture, occupation, etc.. I’ll start us off. Title: Shards Location: Modern Earth Occult shard Rain fell endlessly on the narrow winding streets of New London. The city was bathed in a perpetual night, which had engulfed the city ever since metahuman activists had struck out against the mundane world to claim a home of their own. There where essentially two kinds of people living in the city, sleepers and the awakened. While at one time they had different meaning these days it meant those who refused to recognize the truth of the world around them and those who did. It was amazing really that despite the occult origins and means that governed most of things that people used in their daily life that so many could not see that truth for what it was. The awakened fell into three categories, there where the metahumans who where not completely human and possessed traits that sleepers would recognize from horror movies and folklore. Then there was the gifted or the cursed depending on your point of view, these where people who with either born with or later acquired occult or psychic powers. And then lastly there where the regular people who no different they anyone else except they had accepted the truth of their world. While the awakened where still a minority they where powerful one and one that could only be policed by its own kind. No sleeper security force could ever effectively deal with the awakened and that’s why the task fell to the specials division of the police force, a scattered array of independent paranormal investigators who either possessed a gift or equipped themselves Markovian instruments, and the ruthless and specially trained Vatican inquisitors.