🪟Exploration

The second phase of our Experience begins with what we wanted to achieve when we first started brainstorming Terratories – get people outside to take a deep breath of oxygen and explore their own backyards. An immersive digital world for gaming, education, dating, markets, and other social experiments is in the extremely near future. With Terratories we hope to link the digital world with reality by integrating our present world and innovative blockchain technology.

A cairn is a pile of rocks built by humans to indicate a trail marker or the top of a mountain summit. Cairns appear all over the world and were even used in prehistoric times as grave markers. They can be found in all assorted sizes and in various shapes. The cairn is the perfect device for us to embrace at Terratories - it is easy to construct, has historic ties to the world, Earth manufactures the materials, and they appear in all corners of the globe. In our story cairns are placed to generate mena (energy used to summon the elem) from the bion they are built upon. The cairn is therefore a critical piece to our Exploration phase.

Players will be given Cairn Placement NFTS. These NFTs are consumable NFTs that are meant to be used outdoors to convert a position on the map into a cairn. The NFT identifies a player’s coordinates and creates a new NFT based on the player’s geo location. Players will select a bion for the cairn they are placing to create a ring of influence around their cairn. No other cairns can be placed within 333 feet of a cairn. We set this distance so players can get more exercise while moving from one interaction to the next.

Upon placing the cairn, a player will create a unique badge and name for their cairn. These are identifiers for your cairn that no other player will be able to duplicate. The badge will be created in a generator from pre-designed shapes, symbols, and emblems. A player will select the art they want to use in which location of their badge and once stoked about their design, submit the badge to the blockchain. Once a badge combination is used, the system will alert other players of a taken configuration should they try to use the same.

A map will be accessible for users to see where all cairns are placed so they know what areas are available. Has Mount Denali been taken? Has Mount Kilimanjaro been taken? The map will show all this information as you look across the globe. A digital cairn can be placed anywhere (except for private land). Your placement of a cairn provides you with a digital asset of the area where you placed your cairn.

Badges

Badges are customized identifiers players generate upon creating a cairn. There will be a generic set of symbols, emblems, and designs for every player to utilize. Players who own a Speaker NFT will have access to exclusive designs based on the traits of their Speaker. Other designs will become available during events, promos, and for achieving certain quests.

The badges will serve as a passport stamp for players visiting cairns. Starting in Phase III, each player will be given a passport upon partaking in the Terratories experience. The first time a player visits a cairn, their passport will be stamped to indicate they have visited the location. If a player goes back a second time, they will receive a tally mark to show the number of visits a cairn is frequented. This information will show which cairns are the most frequented and popular. Players can also see which cairns they have interacted with the most.

Placement

Our app will not have any restrictions in placing a cairn (unless we can map out all the private land), but we do ask players to take a tactful approach in their placements. Placing a cairn will draw in other players, and the locations set up will ultimately be tied to a player’s experience and the overall Terratories community. Upon placing a cairn, users will have to agree to a full set of terms to verify the location is a safe location and does not offer any hazards. While we may not initially know if a cairn is on private property, we will find out if the cairn was placed without permission and take action.

For the best experience, we ask players to think about placing cairns in public areas highlighting a part of town or unique experience a traveler would find interesting. A few suggestions are outside of your favorite restaurant, on a lake, in the ocean, on a mountain, at a trailhead, by your favorite bench, on the beach, by a unique house, a series along a bike path, where you were engaged/married, by your favorite piece of art/sculpture or museum, at an airport or train station, historical sites, that one covered bridge in town, an area while cross country skiing, on a gondola ride, and so much more.

When placing your cairn, you will be able to give it a rating on a scale of one to five stars. These stars will indicate how difficult it was to get to your location. Is it on top of a mountain, off trail, and does it require ice axes to get there? Then it is five stars. Did you jump out of a car and travel ten feet to the location? That is going to be a one star. Players who come to visit your cairn will be asked how difficult it was to get to the location. As more people visit, an average difficulty rating will give future visitors a better idea of difficulty.

Superior Cairns

Carins different from the rest. More to come.