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FATE Schmate (Mediate) or How this became the longest post ever.
Hallucinate
Dessegregate
Mediate
Alleviate
Try not to hate
Love your mate
Don't suffocate on your own hate
Designate your love as fate
A one world state
As human freight
The number eight
A white black state
A gentle trait
The broken crate
A heavy weight
Or just too late
Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
Now devastate
Appreciate
Depreciate
Fabricate
Emulate
The truth dilate
Special date
The animal we ate
Guilt debate
The edge serrate
A better rate
The youth irate
Deliberate
Fascinate
Deviate
Reinstate
Liberate
To moderate
Recreate
Or detonate
Annihiliate
Atomic fate
Mediate
Clear the state
Activate
Now radiate
A perfect state
Food on plate
Gravitate
The Earth's own weight
Designate your love as fate
At ninety-eight we all rotate
Hallucinate
Dessegregate
Mediate
Alleviate
Try not to hate
Love your mate
Don't suffocate on your own hate
Designate your love as fate
A one world state
As human freight
The number eight
A white black state
A gentle trait
The broken crate
A heavy weight
Or just too late
Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
Now devastate
Appreciate
Depreciate
Fabricate
Emulate
The truth dilate
Special date
The animals we ate
Guilt debate
The edge serrate
A better rate
The youth irate
Deliberate
Fascinate
Deviate
Reinstate
Liberate
Liberate
Liberate
Liberate
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Wow, now that the INXS song is finished, on to the blog post!
I skipped the whole FATE tie-in because the part I was directed to was called the cluster creation which is a group effort star cluster creation for the Diaspora game, which is basically Traveller. Each player has a hand in creating the world everyone will eventually play in so I thought I would check it out. As it ends up, it might have been ill spent cash for my purposes, but it was an interesting read none the less.
The Microscope system is much more interesting, however. TL;DR it's a way to group create an entire history of something from start to finish, high to low, and everything in between. Its played on notecards, and basically you start with an overarching premise "An ancient empire rises and falls", then create the bookend periods (written on a vertical notecard), the start and finish of the history you will tell and if the theme will be dark or light, so:
Start - After a Malthusian event, an isolated group of nomads organize (Light)
End - The Great Empire, loses the struggle to maintain identity and control as it is stretched thinly across the lands (Dark).
Next, players take turns adding periods (vert), events (horizontal, sub period) , and scenes (vert, sub-event)to the timeline. So:
Start - Derp Derp tribe re-discovers lost majicks (Dark) - End
Start - Derp Derp tribe re-discovers lost majicks (Dark) - Civilization flourishes (Light) - End
Then beneath each period, more details can be determined via events, so:
Derp Derp tribe re-discovers lost majicks (Dark) - EVENT Oceans fall to reveal previously submerged settlements (Light)
And next, below that event: EVENT Tribes emerge imbued with strange powers (Light).
So then another person can look at this and see that there are two Light events under a Dark period and decide to stick an EVENT(Dark) somewhere in that period to darken the mood and build on the story. Then the next person might create a new period and explore a different part of the timeline altogether. Names and legacies may be added, etc. and certain bits and options can be considered taboo for anyone to use at certain parts, like "this world has no elves", then everyone is bound by that taboo, but it can me sort of manipulated so a future event or period may be "Discovery of ancient, extinct elven civilization", or something.
Anyway, the Dungeon World tie in is of course we create the world together so we have an idea what's going on, and then pick a point (possible the end of the last period) to start adventuring. We know where the world has been, what the history is, and can leverage that in our games, gods, races, dungeons, mythos, etc.
Wow, that was long.
EDIT: No idea if this will work, but I linked my gmail account to a collaboration site, and created this example to give you a better idear. Looks like the site would be PERFECT to do this virtually... DO EET
https://realtimeboard.com/app/52233305/Microscope-test-board