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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9240645" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>So I had another sleepless night last night. And in between fleshing out combat maneuvers for Martial Artistry it struck me that there's something that isn't American at all that is also connected to something -deeply- American.</p><p></p><p>Halley's Comet.</p><p></p><p>Every 75 years, give or take, it appears in the skies above Earth for about six months during it's orbit around the Sun. Then? Woosh off into the darkened reaches of space, invisible to the human eye and lost in a sea of stars...</p><p></p><p>It reached it's perihelion on November 16th, 1835, two weeks before Mark Twain was born. And it reached it, again, on April 20th of 1910, the day before Mark Twain died.</p><p></p><p>... So how about a world where that planar alignment occurs once every 75 years, give or take? Where once every 75 years the Material Plane becomes exposed to the terrible darkness beyond mortal ken when the planes align and the gap yawns wide...</p><p></p><p>And what's more? How about a world where Halley's Comet is either the Harbinger of incredible danger, a roving star from the darkness that guides evil to our world... -Or- is the physical manifestation of the gap being -closed- when the event is over? Shining down for 6 months to let everyone know that the evil has been cast away, yet again?</p><p></p><p>Honestly, either direction could be pretty cool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 9240645, member: 6796468"] So I had another sleepless night last night. And in between fleshing out combat maneuvers for Martial Artistry it struck me that there's something that isn't American at all that is also connected to something -deeply- American. Halley's Comet. Every 75 years, give or take, it appears in the skies above Earth for about six months during it's orbit around the Sun. Then? Woosh off into the darkened reaches of space, invisible to the human eye and lost in a sea of stars... It reached it's perihelion on November 16th, 1835, two weeks before Mark Twain was born. And it reached it, again, on April 20th of 1910, the day before Mark Twain died. ... So how about a world where that planar alignment occurs once every 75 years, give or take? Where once every 75 years the Material Plane becomes exposed to the terrible darkness beyond mortal ken when the planes align and the gap yawns wide... And what's more? How about a world where Halley's Comet is either the Harbinger of incredible danger, a roving star from the darkness that guides evil to our world... -Or- is the physical manifestation of the gap being -closed- when the event is over? Shining down for 6 months to let everyone know that the evil has been cast away, yet again? Honestly, either direction could be pretty cool. [/QUOTE]
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