Jamjar Setting I Will Never Use
May. 2nd, 2021 02:06 amThis idea came to me while thinking about a Fruits Basket character who is emotionally dependent on various male characters and who has terrible issues with internalized misogyny- I wound up wondering how she'd adjust if she was taken not only into the world outside of the cult she grew up in, but one where she only has other women to interact with. A jamjar type DW roleplay game would be a way to set up this scenario, and trying to think of what kind of setting would fit the Only Women motif, I thought of the planet Venus.
Venus, of course, isn't actually a habitable planet in reality, but I figure that would tie into things: The Lore would be that only those with "the spirit of Venus" or some such silliness are able to breathe in Venus's atmosphere- those who lack it would die very quickly.
Venus would also otherwise have something of a scientific romance or planetary romance aesthetic- Very Old Science Fiction except presumably with less of the teeny tiny metal bikinis of the 1960s and 70s. (Unless your character is inclined towards that sort of thing, I suppose.) I admit I'm not well versed in old/classic scifi though, so it's all very vague in my head.
I also did a little research into how old scifi depicted Venus. Generally it's depicted as Earth-like, but hotter than Earth on average, with perpetual cloud cover... Dinosaurs and mushrooms seem to be featured a lot. Cribbing a bit from Forgotten Futures, and doing some googling around, this is my current mental image:
Venus, of course, isn't actually a habitable planet in reality, but I figure that would tie into things: The Lore would be that only those with "the spirit of Venus" or some such silliness are able to breathe in Venus's atmosphere- those who lack it would die very quickly.
Venus would also otherwise have something of a scientific romance or planetary romance aesthetic- Very Old Science Fiction except presumably with less of the teeny tiny metal bikinis of the 1960s and 70s. (Unless your character is inclined towards that sort of thing, I suppose.) I admit I'm not well versed in old/classic scifi though, so it's all very vague in my head.
I also did a little research into how old scifi depicted Venus. Generally it's depicted as Earth-like, but hotter than Earth on average, with perpetual cloud cover... Dinosaurs and mushrooms seem to be featured a lot. Cribbing a bit from Forgotten Futures, and doing some googling around, this is my current mental image:
- Warm and dry with little variation, although the perpetual cloud cover reflects away the worst of the sun's heat.
- Higher air pressure and oxygen levels than on Earth. Be careful with fires.
- From what I can gather it's probably a bit like Northwest Argentina, i.e. varies but tends to be either arid or temperate.
- Gravity is slightly lower than on Earth, so I think moving around would be... Lighter? Kind of airier?
- Lots of flying creatures that take advantage of this.