Questions!

[sythyry]

I have to write an essay, and rather quickly. Therefore, I beg and intreat [sic] you, please ask me questions or leave me notes -- about anything -- anything, that is, except for padded armchairs. I have absolutely nothing to say about padded armchairs, not to you, nor to the other yous, nor yet to Prof. Yrrkyrr.

Comments

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I know that your part of the World Tree has dirigibles: lighter-than-air craft. Has anyone tried creating even a glider -- a heavier-than-air craft that rises with the thermals? If so, how well does it work?

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

Chip: WHERE did you come across this??? I've been trying to glean all I can about the World Tree skyboats and related technologies. I hate it that i've missed something like that.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- where did it come from? I don't remember it...

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

*whistles innocently*

How do I know that there are skyboats?

*mugs to the audience, "He'll kick himself when he sees this..."*

Sooooo... what'll you offer... ****OOOOOOFF!****

*looks up at the fox sitting on his chest!*

"All that I know is the picture on the back of the book! That and 'Fly Like a Bird'!"

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I didn't say "where did you see skyboats." You specifically mentioned dirigibles, which operate on a completely different theory from traditional World Tree skyboats (what little I know of them). I thought you knew something that I didn't. :)

Given the way physics works on the Tree, a dirigible may not even fly. I'm surprised the BIRDS can even fly or that smoke rises.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

[Bard explains stuff to Sythyry]

Well, we've got lighter-than-air craft, but they're mostly made of wood and they're lighter than air in the same sense that I'm sometimes lighter than air, with levitation.

Gliders sound like way of wearing a really big sign saying, "AIR ELEMENTALS, PLEASE HURT ME LOTS!"