Post index:

* For an five and a half minute audio explanation of the information below, click here for /u/Acrobatic_Ticket_659/The-Blend-Mk-II">[soundgasm]

or here for [whyp]

* Google Docs: [The simple questionnaire concerning any new content for the blend can be found here.]

* Google Docs: [Scripts, audios, and new details added to the blend can be found here..]

* What is The Blend? - scroll down

* About the world of The Blend - scroll down

* How to create content for The Blend - scroll down

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If you are reading this, you may or may not already be familiar with the blend. For those that are, this new home on scriptguild will be the place to stop in and see what’s happening. For those of you that are not familiar, welcome, and feel free to jump in on the fun!

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This will be your one-stop shop for all things, "The Blend." I have taken the liberty of collecting all the present content to take place in the blend, and organized it as entries on the new google sheet (link at the top). Attached to each script are links to all the fills done for those scripts.

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What is The Blend?

The blend is a world designed to act as a sort of sandbox setting for GWA affiliated content. It is an urban fantasy environment, intended to be expanded upon by the content creators of our amazing community.

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The World of The Blend

A number of years back, and for entirely unknown reasons, our world and a classical fantasy world have randomly swapped portions of their living creatures. Knowledge of magic has crossed over along with elves, dwarfs, orcs, and whatever else you can think of, and somewhere on the other side, you can assume people have brought a higher understanding of technology. It has been several years since the blend, and people have settled back into the swing of things on both sides of, "the veil," and have pretty much made peace with the fact that there doesn't appear to be any way back. This means that there are relatively small communities of classic fantasy species living in the modern day, trying to make their way in the larger human society. Go for a hike in the wrong place, and instead of a cougar or a bear, you might be unlucky enough to run into a chimera or manticore. Here there be dragons. You might know one. You might even get an insurance policy for, "act of dragon," on your home.

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Magical colleges have started popping up the world over, but they are hard to get into and secretive with their trade skills. “Arc.” (short for Arcanist) is now a title, like Dr. or Rev., and some stuffy wizard will very eagerly correct you if you dare call them, “Mr. Gandalf (or whoever).”

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The elves, gnomes, and other species with a natural affinity for magic have utilized that knowledge to create lucrative corporations, and elven investment is now a powerful force in both the private and public sectors. Dwarfs have taken up more physical roles as industrial workers, skilled technical tradesmen, and builders of durable appliances and machines that put cheap mass produced human crap to shame - just ask them. Centaurs aren't thought of poorly, but the world isn't exactly made for them.

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Orcs, goblins, minotaurs, and other less, "noble," species have had a harder time integrating, and have fallen into places on the fringe of society, though the disciplined, martial pre-blend culture of the hobgoblins has found them an accepting niche in military service. Orcs have found places as blue-collar workers at best, and professional goons at worst. There is a thriving goblin-operated organized crime syndicate in most cities, which has sort of become the underworld equivalent to the corporate but often equally ruthless power of the elves. All of these are just the molds society has forced these species into - it's not like every, or even most goblins are part of the, "gob-mob," for example, but it is the lens through which society views them. It is a world of gray areas and people and monsters just trying to get by, day to day.

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How to create content for The Blend:

1. Anyone who wants to make content for the blend is welcome to jump in. Just respect what other people have made and try not to directly contradict it.
2. Fill out the [form].
3. For your script or audio, tag [The Blend] in the post title.
4. Send me a DM to let me know you've posted something for it!

Post formatting mercilessly stolen, messed up, and then hastily and only partially recreated, based on the layout created by u/dominaexcrucior on a previous post.

Music:

[“Tom Waits for Nobody,”] courtesy of [Freesoundmusic]

[The Shuffle] Royalty free music Produced by Danya Vodovoz.

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