From 778e255106570a7cab68abb5e2a6698daf100247 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: AndrewMurrell Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:49:40 -0500 Subject: converted org to md --- src/apocrypha/thegournalgeographicaffairs.org | 137 -------------------------- 1 file changed, 137 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 src/apocrypha/thegournalgeographicaffairs.org (limited to 'src/apocrypha/thegournalgeographicaffairs.org') diff --git a/src/apocrypha/thegournalgeographicaffairs.org b/src/apocrypha/thegournalgeographicaffairs.org deleted file mode 100644 index 3d28b90..0000000 --- a/src/apocrypha/thegournalgeographicaffairs.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,137 +0,0 @@ -The Gournal of Geographic Affairs: The Sun-Touched Mountain - ---- - -title: "The Gournal of Geographic Affairs: The Sun-Touched Mountain" - -updated: "2017-12-23 Sat 14:21" - -categories: AP, WP - ---- - -Welcome Readers, to the second Special Edition of our illustrious -catalog of facts and figures. - -Last year, after our exploration of the Lowerdark's Cragmag Caverns -proved such a fantastic success, we set our sights higher: to answer a -[nagging] reader's question. Lola, age 8, from the Valanacian city of -Florora, has been sending us letters. Over two hundred letters to be -precise. Each has asked the same question, - -"Deer GGE, what is the talest mowntun [sic] in the world?" - -And while we don't usually reward improper spelling, her insistence, -and the fact that no expert in the world seemed to know a precise -answer, convinced us to settle it once and for all. Who knew that -simple question one year ago would spark a fantastic journey of -discovery and collaboration that may have ramifications beyond what we -dreamed possible. Returning laden with treasures only one month ago, -the GEE (& co.) Expedition has brought us the greatest treasure of -all: an answer. - -Dear Lola, - -The greatest mountain in the world stands atop the far-northern range -of snowy mountains known as the Sunpeaks. - -Since the entire northern ridge is filled with enormous mountains -dwarfing (or maybe even gnoming) all other mountains found elsewhere, -it was rather difficult for our sages here at the Imperial Center for -Geographical Excellence to locate the general area of the range in -which the peak might exist, much less its correlative parallel, and -the sheer size of the range combined with its namesake ever-present -blinding sunlight made clairvoyance and scrying spells of little use -above 50,000 ft. - -Yes, you read that right. 50,000. That's almost three times the -height of Mount Pang and twice that of the Skyknife, but in the -Sunpeaks, that's barely passing for average. - -But fear not dear readers. The Geournal for Geographical Excellence -is here to quench your thirst for knowledge. For comparing the several -dozen peaks which form the Upper Cluster, we had to go to extreme -lengths (and heights). Simply put, we had to go there. - -With our collaborative sponsors, The Community Climber, Aerial -Affairs, Snowpeak Tea, and a grant from the Ministry of Maps, we -raised 1.3 million Imperial silver swans (a little more than the -monthly taxpayer cost to support an entire legion of cavalry), to -finance a voyage into the unknown, staking both our reserves and our -reputation on the Expedition. - -We spared no cost, hiring only the best of the best. Trackers, -weatherworkers, guards, and guides, we set out into the Plateau of the -Sun to find our answer. - -Six months we searched the pockets of mountains that exceeded our -50,000 mark, listening to local legends, sending up balloons, and -using a combination of our savvy and our ability to take small arcane -gateways to cross from peak to peak. And those were fruitful months, -even though we had yet to locate our quarry, days spent mapping and -drawing, nights spent gazing into the clearest sky anywhere in the -world (and then mapping and drawing it too)! - -We had found mountains. Tall ones. But had we found the tallest? - -We wouldn't know for almost three more months. The answer, it seemed, -was always no. We would crest a peak, only to find another rising -above us on the horizon. We had to to maintain a constant litany of -darksight spells to see (without going blind) and frost spells to -avoid melting (while in the sun) and fire spells to avoid freezing -(while in the shade). - -We had to conjure air to breathe. - -And it was in these inhospitable conditions that we found them. Not -mountains, those would come later, but our guides and our salvation. - -We were somewhere precisely north of the 47th parallel, when one of our -forward seers called for a halt. He had found a body. We assumed the -worst, and began to prepare a frost-bag for storing it to take back -with us when we came down the mountain (as we'd had to do with most of -our veritable zoo of animals by this point). - -Imagine our surprise when the body rose to greet us with a smile. - -He was a bald human man, and no more than a few years into his young -adulthood, and was absolutely blind, and fairly near naked. He led us -to his small mountain abode, filled with others like him. They called -themselves monks, but when I asked them about their order, they had -none! - -Though I would have offered the poor unregistered fellows use of my -official quill and Imperial ink (had it not been alternatively frozen -and then boiled) to register with an approved order, they assured me -that they had no interest in the ways of the 'folk from down -below'. Upon our request (and a few oddities accepted in exchange, -namely a small bowl made of True Timber and a pair of hollow diamonds) -the unregistered 'monks' agreed to aid us towards our goal (though I -gathered the distinct impression that they very much acquiesced -primarily in order to rid themselves of us). - -Two weeks after meeting with the 'monks' we had found it. - -The Sun-Touched Mountain. - -So, Lola, I'm sure you're lost interest by now, being the petulant and -insistent child that you are, but deep within the Sunpeaks, beyond the -ken of the civilized peoples, stands the tallest mountain in the -world. - -We didn't climb it; we didn't dare. And our humble guides requested -that we saved ourselves the trouble. For we had found it. High above -the world, on a ridge of mountains the locals call 'The Edge' stands -the impossibly massive peak. - -Shrouded from below by almost constant cloud-cover and the jutting -cliffs of that massive ridge, we only dared observe it from afar. The -expanse between the ridge and the cluster we found ourselves on was -measured in miles. - -Our best calculations put the height of the Sun-Touched Mountain at a -staggering 179,400 ft. And at it's peak, a brilliant day's Sun. - -I'll never forget the sight. - -Thank you Lola. Now please stop writing us. -- cgit v1.2.3