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[bjornwilde]

Did anyone catch the eclipse? I had meant to but sleep proved to valuable to miss. And let's run with that for our topic for today.

How closely does your character follow astronomical events? Do they watch the stars for fun or for clues to the time of year? Do they see omens in the heavens or is it all just balls of hot gas?

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[gredya]

...Awww NERTS I completely forgot about it! I mean, I would have gone for sleep anyway if had remembered, but dammit.

Gredya makes extensive use of the sky for navigation and timekeeping (though the lunar cycle doesn't have any effect on the Wyr, unlike werewolves from other traditions).

Bossuet lets his science buddies handle the serious stargazing, for the most part, but he likes hearing them talk about it, and he likes playing with the idea of life on other planets. Or moons. Or stars. Whatever, it's all pretty cool.

[bjornwilde]

Jess sees the stars as fun thing to watch when neat stuff happens but part of the landscape other wise. Unless there is a crisis like an alien invasion or Galactus or something.

Hank sees them as neat bits of science he hasn't explored much...yet. He'll get there eventually.

Same with Lady Trent.

Brimstone sees the moon as his people's Goddess and the stars as the Gods of his people's enemies, at least on the surface. I think he is more agnostic than he lets on and isn't so sure there are divine beings.

For Quin, star, moons, and planets are like highways, rest stops, and such. Astronomical events are fun to watch when you have the time but more often than not, they are part of the background.

Sam always has one eye pointed towards the sky and so I think he is an amateur star gazer.

Andrea keeps a weather eye out not so much because full moons effect the weres of her world (strong magic waves will but not the phase of the moon), but more because people are weird with full moons and odd celestial events. Magic is nothing if not accommodating to sensational belief in her world.

Ethan doesn't need to keep a close eye on the phase of the moon, he feels it deep in his bones.

[repositorian]

For Noriko, the stars are a part of her everyday landscape; she likes looking at them but they're just sort of there, no big deal. Meteors and shooting stars she does enjoy looking at, though.

Ganymede counts the stars as very, very important; literally he does have pieces of him *in the stars*, as I've headcanoned that is why he's immortal. Of course, that means when the stars begin to 'die' so will he, but that'll be a log time coming.

Finvarra has a different sort of view of the stars. His world, for lack of a better term, is not defined by geographical bounds but by time (the white gates of morning and black gates of night are the entrance and exit respectively) so while the stars are pretty they're just decoration and occasionally a nice excuse to do something mildly worrisome to humans.

[basic_powers]

Wait, the eclipse was this morning???

NUTS

[cameoflage]

Aradia hasn't had access to the sky of her home planet for quite a while, and the sky is different in the Medium. The only light visible beyond your own incipisphere when you're in a session is the Green Sun, and even that's only visible if the twisted spacetime in the Furthest Ring currently allows light emitted during its existence to reach you, as opposed to showing the blackness of a time before it existed. The Furthest Ring has also been populated with dream bubbles, which are memories made solid (solid-ish, anyway; real objects can pass harmlessly through the dreambubble scenery) and populated by ghosts, and they appear as lights in the sky over short/medium distances.

Thurlow lives in a cave and eats 10000 spiders per day; this prevents access to starlight. There are bioluminescent creatures that live on the roof of the Neath, though, and their movements (as well as the movements of the bat-flocks) inspire their own superstitions. Thurlow thinks horoscopes in general, but Neathy horoscopes in particular, are a load of hogwash but one with decent entertainment value. On the Surface they were mostly just interested in stargazing if something unusual was happening in the sky.

[filemyclaim]

Clem is more of an astrology person. Ep and Jules are stargazers. Dixie is marvels at the general notion of space versus anything else.