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Welcome to the Clouds
We are.｡ ⋆ ｡ ﾟ ☁︎ ﾟ ｡ ⋆ in the sky, ｡ ⋆ ｡ ☁︎ there’s different types of clouds: cirrus, altus, stratus and cumulus.
The clouds live in communion with each other. There are regular ebs and flows of different cloud types passing by. The clouds are filled with important informations, storing and exchanging within and with each other, giving and taking, migrating and changing states through the different layers of the sky. Clouds have been traveling up and down the skyscalator for millenia. Sometimes clouds rub up against each other. The frictions can generate friendly energies, exchanges of information and knowledge. Sometimes the energy can build up, and become too much to contain. Then comes the urgent cloudy need of sharing beyond the boundaries of the sky in the form of precipitation.
The clouds are home to various beings, of different shapes and sizes: the cloudwellers. The cloudwellers do not only inhabit the clouds. but are inhabited by them. Cloudwellers engage in life-sustaining symbiosis with the clouds. The clouds are composed of cloudwellers. The cloudwellers operate, feed, are fed by, manoeuvre, and listen to the the clouds. The cloudwellers are very invested in sharing skills and knowledge, each with their own curiosity and excitement to give and receive new informations to disseminate to any like-minded beings.
The air feels heavy. Something is on the horizon. A dense flow of information and energies is accumulating. A change is to be expected……….
Making your cloudweller!
Warm up! What change is your activity rooting for/ rooted in / wanting to inspire?
Questions to help give life and depth to your cloudweller Now let’s give a body to your activity, it can be shapes that are present in the activity or the outcome you are hoping for your session or it can become something else? What is that shape? How does your character’s body feel? How do you relate to the cloud you are part of at the moment? Have you always been here or do you know other clouds? How do you feel about your presence in the sky? Do you like your position in the sky? In this particular cloud?
More questions if needed! How do you move? How do you communicate? Do you have a specific function, powers? Do you have ambitions? Are you comfortable? Are you in control?
Character sheet Name: Short description: Desire: Goal: Personality: Commit to: Symbol/drawing/emoji/link to a visual reference/ASCII:
cirrus (blue)
- high (above 5000m), thin, wispy, transparent, feathery, veil-like layers
- composed of ice-crystals
- often create a halo effect around the sun.
- are the first to experience changes in weather
Electromaxxing Aquaguzzler
I’m the cloudiest of all clouds. Thriving on opacity. Both hyperscale and hyper(in)visible.
I sell unfullfillable promises of prosperity, leisure and joint thriving.
No one wants me in their neighbourhood, but speculative cash and ill-informed fever dreams keep me going.
Soon, I will cover every surface on this godforsaken planet.
At least 99% of all electricity should go to me. The only way ahead is forward and upwards. The sky is the limit.
Miley Cirrus
Name: Miley Cirrus. I had cloud dysmorphia — I thought I was cumulus for a while, but I’m ok with my shape now.
Short description: Used to fly above everything, but slowly getting rooted in reality
Desire: Get as much sun as possible
Personality: detached from this world but funny
Commit to: Being there, not always on time
Symbol/drawing/emoji/link to a visual reference/ASCII: (‾⌣‾)
PuffymovezzZz
Confused and super fast. This means we are always moving and never sure where to go next. A desire to connect and light up! Personality: effected by change Commit to: water splashes (irregular)
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hi i’m kib
++ spiky when needed {for protection and fency aerodynamics} +++ + i would love to find and intercharge fellow blue clouds ++ +++ + i’m cute {although no one believes me when i say it} ++ ++++ + +
Hi I’m 𓇢Sid𓆸 (sˈiːd))
𓇢Sid𓆸 is a 4.5 inches longitudinal wave that is mostly merry and zooming around its own Cirrus cloud, unsure whether it can keep its form outside this environment but eager to discover the other strata of the sky and their dwellers. It travels at the speed of 331 meters per second, which is a bit too fast for their own good, if you ask them.
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i am an archipelago of cloud islands, a sort of floating infrastructures that mostly archives thingies. My shape(S) changes daily depending on several server+weather conditions, however, one thing remains ••••• I have a lot of toes 🐾 and a special taste for pedicure with ice_crystal_gems &&& hallo nail effects 💅 I mostly communicate through shadows ( shadow play ? ) so i am specially talkative on cloudy days. I secretly (maybe not so secretly now) collect water droplets from the ‘Stratus’. I’ve been ordereing them for the next season, with no specific reason YET. I am definitely not in control of the complexity && *drama”” in my clouds so pls, be aware, that some >momentary< unpredictability might arrise.
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altus (red)
- middle (2000-5000m), grey & blue grey layers with wide coverage
- composed of water droplets (or ice and water)
- fluffy ripples, dimming light
- precede a weather change
hello, I’m ~ Goblindrop ~
thestickydropletalliance
We are a revolutionary army of small water droplets, we are many, we are common, we are invisible. We organize to come as a shadow to hide into. Our mass is slow, our actions are quick. A tight spark, rubbing against inacceptable imposing infrastructures, putting tiny lights over unawerness and the thunder will come later. We want to flood existing data centers and constructions sites with tons of stickers ! We need the widest coverage ! Cute and angry, we relay our messages through bold visuals ! ⛆⛆⛆⛆.ೃ࿔ ⛆⛆⛆⛆
I will slurp up all your little droplets. one by one. heheheh.
Heya, I’m Cluddite, a very old cloud, both patient and restless, ambitious and relaxed, opinionated and open-minded.
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Name: breekbaar
Short description: I am a wide yet fragile (breekbaar) cloud, full of content yet none of it realised. Imaginative, anarchist and revolutionary. When the sun goes down, this cloud appears, connecting the people with each other where no one can see. Literature, games, maps, none of it is too far. Is it our mission to make this cloud visible, or to protect us from the harsh world. What is the goal, and what is the desire, it is not clear. How can we ground this cloud full of water, to nourish the soil for a new world to appear from it.
Desire: connection
Goal: a fairer world
Personality: fractured
Commit to: gitea
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° ° °° ° crickle is a knee kicking the back of someone else’s knee, daughter to altus, made to feel drawn to stratus, yet valueing their family. the sky and the altus cloud family are their birthplace yet momentarily, they feel misfitting to that family. Is it their chosen family or would the chosen family include other clouds?
Desire to create the ripples in altus Goal
shake up altus (their family) and bring the change it is made to bring
about in a higher speed Personality loving brat sister
Committed to submission to annoyingly unforeseeable
and unchangeable change ° ° °° °
🫧 bubble 🫧 the vibes: refracting light / windows / rainbows / prisms. How are we diffused and distorted? Desiring to make sure everything is as transparent as a bubble; to bubble up and blob with others. Personality: ready to burst (ideally soaking a tech ceo).
stratus (green)
- low (under 2000m), dark, thick grey layers
- composed of water droplets
- opaque, block out the sun
- produce steady precipitation
TEMP
Short description: i’ve been romaing around the sky, im large and a bit heavy, i have fuzzy edge, enjoy nature and helping fertilizing the land. however, I could be very messy and loud, but anyway I proud of myself doing this:) Desire: sustainable world Personality: chill Symbol/drawing/emoji/link to a visual reference/ASCII: <333 @^@
Period!!
I’m rather heavy myself, but most people don’t see me ☺️
cumulus (pink)
- vertical (connecting), puffy, cotton-ball like
- varied composition
- flat basis, sharp outlines, massive, towering
- heavy rain, thunderstorms, lightning and hail
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hello, I’m ~ cloudete ~
i’m puffy and pink and with multiple long strings/arms that tickles the cloudwellers of the cumulus and occasionally the other clouds too. Trickster, joker kind of candy energy. i take space but sometimes i need to scale down and retreat! and that can provoke little hail attack!
Hey Cloudete, here is Crapulus, are you up for some pranks side quests togehther? always! i was just telling you about how much i like pranks a bit below the cumulus! Yeah I am excited to read that, happy to meet you tricksters
I am | We are
°°dropspider°°
I am | We are a fluid net that continues to be woven. For some, and on some days, I | we might be dense and small, or vast and full of holes. Sometimes, I | we can be slippery and sticky—that’s the fun of it! I | we might be present every day, or I | we might not have shown up at all yet. In either case: welcome! I am | we are here to find common threads and to weave together what might seemed separate or far away until now!
it thinks that you and it might have a lot in common. it also likes to bring people together. would you like to befriend it?
I think so, too! Let’s crossweave!
you are the second cloudweller to ask it that today! it is very flattered but it still thinks things are moving a little fast. it hopes this is okay. it likes it when gifts are passed onward in loops, though, so perhaps it can interweave with dropspider and cloudete and they can form a chain? it might feel a little more comfortable that way.
Kon-J
I’m too fast, or too slow, you never know. Uncertainty is part of my composition. My form comes together under pressure, and you can often smell me before you see me. when you firist meet me, im very light and airy, but with time i become fuller and very warm. You have to trust me and let me form, dont be afraid of my heat.
it chooses to trust you, though it is a little scared that you will let it down.
steward of ever-increasing
it is the steward of ever-increasing. or simply ‘ever’. it is exceedingly happy to be here. it resembles a tangled mass of strands and cords. they may be dendrites, or they may be mycelium, or they may be telephone wires. it has never felt the need to check.
hi ever it’s cloudete! i’m also with strings of sorts, like arms in a way, maybe sometimes our strands/cords get entangled!
it thinks this is a very intimate proposition for a first meeting! which is not to say that it is not considering it. perhaps. a little.
oh yes sorry… didn’t mean to be intrusive. we can … take time!
it wishes to express that no harm was done and no offence was caused.
a gift: #@&& (an emoticon for tangled beings. it is the equivalent of a human’s “smiley face”.)
Warpulus Weftus
I am Warpulus Weftus, an abstract form that is constantly shifting open to my observers interpretation. I sometimes carry personal significance other times I am full of holes, both the siginficant and the insignificant make up my form. I am formed from the evaporation of a large body of water, difficult to interpret. Only when I take form I become ledigble. I rain down all that I carry washing over my observer.
a gift: a bucket to hold the water and then to overflow.
this abstractions sounds wonderful!! Enchanting
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Stella Thunderdome
I’m a long nebula made out sugar crystals and salt flakes turbinating in an endless motion! Dreaming of bridging new dimensions through flavours and parfumes, rains and winds. Sociable as well as shy, I connect throught lightings.
SWEET!
do not worry, it is also shy. but it thinks all the other cloudwellers in cumulus seem very nice. #@&&
:3 <3
Hi Stella Thenderdome sugar crystal sounds like a lot of fun to try out. Do you think bridging dimension can create new types of clouds ?
YEEeeesss of course bringing dimensions together will generate new unpredictable types of clouds!
omg i love sugar!!!! and salt a bit also, i mean it’s ok, it’s good to balance. love lightnings babes, stellar!
hi I’m hairyfurry, I’m a sneaky slipperycreature can move inbetween different seems closed systerms, I’m gifted transfer my current surroundings into a porous structure, I desire for breaking all the possible bourdry against the willing of moving. ᘛ⁐ᕐᐷᘛ⁐ᕐᐷᘛ⁐ᕐᐷᘛ⁐ᕐᐷ
Hey hairy fairy, here is crapulus. How slippery are you today? I am curious about your wisdom and knowledge, do you know how to transform liquids into solids an vice-versa? I am currently researshing some clouchemy for my sculpting practices
hii crapulus, i feel there are some frictions, maybe too sweaty and too sticky, maybe most of solids are actually liquid but in different time scale, maybe the earth is actually river in slow speed. for your sculpting practice maybe you need something moves faster than that, like seeweed based jello, they can be shaped in mold and when you heat them up they can become liquid again (good for re-using)
heyyyy should we go to the stratus? maybe hairyfurry you can help with moving inbetween?!
yesss let’s go
𝖍𝖊𝖞, 𝖒𝖞 𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝕮𝖑𝖔𝖚𝖉𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖚𝖑𝖆, 𝖒𝖞 𝖇𝖔𝖉𝖞 𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖔𝖓𝖐𝖞, 𝕴 𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖍𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖘 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊, 𝖘𝖔 𝖒𝖞 𝖓𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖘 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖑𝖞 𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝖆𝖙 𝖒𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘. (,,>__<,,)
that’s beautiful!
you sound fun to go to shows with!
a gift: a set of handmade linen curtains to hang around one of your holes.
Crapulus,
Hi Cloudies, I am cloud sculptor, many can seem me shaped as a small gnome with a pointy hat
I cast form and symbols. They can be use as communication systems between the different level of clouds that only have meaning for those reading them. The puff sculpture can carry informations, treats, or just some pranks.
heeeyyyy crapulus! it’s cloudete i like your forms and symbols! i’m super puffy so naturally i’m attracted to the puffiness of your sculptures! & i love pranks!
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Such a beautiful puff you have today Cloudete! Your candy energy is shiny bright
root
my shape is like an egg, cracked open and spilling or hatching. I am both chicken and egg, mother and baby, a cycle. I am reaching to others both to take care of and to be cared for. I can be taken anywhere and would like to be. I feel heavy but am actually quite light.
hey root i love eggs! it’s cloudete btw
it is also a being of cycles. it has only just met you, but it hopes you will grow richer and fuller every time you cycle round.