Just recently I got into age building, and thought of a great concept for an age. The age itself is five platforms suspended above the surface of a forested planet. Right now I am trying to add a journal along with some sketches into the age. I have already started the story line/journal:
O.K. here goes
This age is truely amazing, I'm standing atop a rocky platform situated a half mile above the forested surface of this strange planet I have come to call Semphetana. Or at least that is what our team could roughly translate from the strange lettering on the cover of the linking book. The writing is not even closely related to anything you would find in the D'ni language, even our best linguists could only guess what the letters were (if they were even letters).
Were still trying to figure out how the platforms are suspended in midair, especially accounting for their massive size.
Some of our team is trying to organize an expedition down to the surface by way of parachute. It's risky, we don't know what (or who) might be down there. Faint sounds of animals in the distance suggest a predator, so I'm not particularly exited to make touchdown on the surface, although it might help explain why the land down there is down there, and why the platforms are in the sky.
Still can't find which way is north, blasted compasses keep getting de-magnetized on link-in, which suggests a strong magnetic field in this age, perhaps caused by a ferro-magnetic core in the planet below, if only we had some compasses with stronger magnets for the needles...
There was smoke coming out of the forest! The plume wasn't far from the drop point we had decided for touchdown, we might reconsider the location now, there's no telling if the people down there are civilized, and an unfriendly run-in with the natives isn't exactly what we need right now.
We've done some soundings in the rock, and found it to have MASSIVE amounts of iron in it, especially in the center platform's base. As perposterous as it may seem to propose, these platforms might just be magnetic rock suspended in the neutral bouyancy point of Semphetana's magnetic field. Like how the two same ends of a magnet repel. But it's too early to jump to conclusions, we still have to run tests on the rock, which is proving harder and harder to get a sample of, it seems to be magneticly bonded to itself!
We've set up planks of wood as temporary bridges to each platform. Everyone has to carry a linking book when they go across though, godforbid the planks ever snap.
Tomorrow is t-day, the day we will parachute to the surface. I'm scared, not just of the jump, but what might be waiting for us down there when we hit the surface. The rest of the team is packing serious heat, but I have decided against it... The more innocent we look the better, for I do not know what the natives would think of a militaristic team marching into their camp.
We nearly lost the return linking book!! The wind blew us a mile off from our decided drop-zone, and we nearly go skewered by the trees, and our book got dropped from the uper canopy of the jungle. We recovered it, but not exactly in the best condition. This means we'll have to take another o e of our precious few return linking books with us on our next jump. The damp surface is rittled with moss and ferns, everywhere I look seems the same, moss and trees. Finding our way around is going to be very difficult.
Were not alone in this forest, on numerous occasions I've heard human whispers from far away in the distance, but how far can sound travel in a mossy forest?
I must be going mad, I keep seeing flashes of people walking through the forest.
That's what I have so far, just wanted to get some input on the idea, thanks for viewing!
(oh and p.s. I am going to replace the skydome image with just clouds (no ocean), and the forest with a more realistic texture to make it a "forested planet", and not a "forested island"...