# The Light Underground - Day 1

*Building a shared creative universe of the Luminary, open to all.*

By [Light Underground](https://paragraph.com/@luminaries) · 2025-05-07

ai, collaboration, cc0

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AI can help us write faster, draw better, imagine more—but the real magic still happens when people come together to shape something bigger than themselves.

**Luminary** is an open-world storytelling experiment. A universe anyone can build into through characters, tools, artifacts, parables, or plotlines. You can sketch a fragment, drop in a strange idea, or build out an entire world inside the world. 

It’s not creativity by committee. it’s a playground for small teams and solo creators to chase strong creative visions that others can build around.

### **How it works**

For this first week, there is [a round](https://rounds.wtf/luminary/light-underground---week-1-1) going. And there will be a Cura leaderboard.  
  
But here there are no “winners.” The goal is **rewarding high quality participation of all types**, including:

*   Posting any sort of pitches in the [/luminary](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/luminary) channel.
    
    *   Instead of starting from scratch, you can check out [my ideas for the backstory so far](https://paragraph.com/@luminaries/the-myth-wip).
        
*   High quality responses to others posts.
    
*   Minting your ideas as NFTs
    
    *   Mint any way you like. I recommend [highlight](https://highlight.xyz/), as a limited edition or timed open edition, since it displays well on Farcaster.
        
    *   You can choose how much you want to share with [Luminaries.base.eth](https://www.base.org/name/luminaries) to help support the effort. Over half will be swapped to $luminary. (or you can send to 0x896ca605f8d0FfBcFdC086EB55C3F12F22Aec80d and over half will automatically be swapped).
        

### **Why CC0?**

The Luminary is an open myth — a story meant to be expanded, remixed, and reimagined by anyone.

Learn [more about CC0, and why the Luminary is CC0](https://paragraph.com/@luminaries/cc0).

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*Originally published on [Light Underground](https://paragraph.com/@luminaries/day-1)*