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I was thinking about making a landmark for the last Tripodician building, a stone ziggurat made of unusually study blocks. It's really detailed, too, with notes on the local flora of the ziggurat, its decay, the chambers underneath it, and the last Tripodician of a moon-worshipping tribe, an albino nicknamed "White Bone" who left extensive diagrammatic warnings of the solar flare's dangers to any future visitors.

However, given Tripodicians went extinct in Generation 145 and it's Generation 164 now, even an unusually sturdy, lucky, huge ziggurat would be long since broken down. I doubt it would even leave traces of unusual geology at this point.

Since it's long, long past the point at which any Tripodician buildings would remain, I can't make a landmark for them. Should there be a "Sophont Archaeology" topic?

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Jun 5 2021, 07:03 PM)

Since it's long, long past the point at which any Tripodician buildings would remain, I can't make a landmark for them. Should there be a "Sophont Archaeology" topic?

There 100% should be a thread about this, but I moved it to the Science channel

Since not all slots were filled for week 22 landmarks, I wonder if retroactive landmarks could also be implemented. Though...this would be on the week 22/23 boundary.

I think if I were to have done it, it would be an insta-extinct week 23 landmark which describes the final years and eventual demise of the last tripodician, so that readers encounter it chronologically when browsing by week.

Coincidentally, I've been working on a 21/22 boundary diorama depicting the last Sagons. It's far less beautiful; they freeze to death unceremoniously on the tundra after running out of firewood.

Oh, this might actually fit less as a landmark or diorama and more as an example of a suggestion I made for story submissions, though. (basically written dioramas - a documentary or story about creatures in their environment pretty much, documentaries being like, well, nature documentaries, and stories being more comparable to stuff like Little Moments and Stronger Together from Serina)

EDIT: Brain fried from being outside all day - 50 edits later I think I've nailed it

Poignant. I want to see this as a thing. Coolsteph's "landmark" with the story about the tripodicians, I mean. The fact that this tripodician was named "White Bone" seems oddly prescient. It reminds me of "this is not a place of honor".