City Musings: Name, etc.

[sythyry]

I really, really want to get back home. And, say, put Grinwipey in a garret or sweatshop somewhere that he stops beating up all the cute Orren my friends.

And, of course, get started on the city.

[Poll #1748937]

Comments

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

Would you live there, if you were prime?

I don't like the assumption I would want to be prime!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I did not assume that you were prime voluntarily or intentionally, simply that you were.

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

Well, if I'm involuntarily a prime, don't I have bigger problems than what city to live it?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

That depends entirely on other hypotheticals, which have not been described thus far!

[ragarth.livejournal.com]

Hmm, no more than Sythyry or any other prime, for what prime ever chose to be as such?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, if the scawn's ridiculous theology is right, a fair number of Sleeth did...

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Is there any chance that the scawns' ridiculous theology is right?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I know of no experimental evidence that it is right -- indeed, none to suggest that any nonprimes ever get reincarnated as primes or vice-versa. But I know of a great many inherent delusions of non-prime species. So I very much doubt that it is right.

[wyrdryn.livejournal.com]

Personally, I suspect that a nonprime who sufficiently impresses a god is perfectly capable of being reincarnated as a prime, should they express that desire.

Also, I have certain theories for when a prime may be mistakenly incarnated as something else, albeit as I have constructed it this can only go prime-to-prime.

But don't listen to me, I am perpetually a weird dissident. And a perpetual weird dissident for other reasons.

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

Sythyry, do you want to be a prime, or would your rather be something else?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I like being a Zi Ri.

I have actually thought about this a good deal, since Mynthë (my wife, more or less) hated being a Herethroy.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm horrible with names!

[archadia.livejournal.com]

I would like to live there, even if I was not a prime, which I don't think I am!

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Check your Maginarium.

If it has all the Nouns and Verbs, and otherwise matches the World Tree, then you are.

[archadia.livejournal.com]

*blushes* "Maginarium"?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

[I translate it as "magerium" myself. It's the connection between your body and spirit, World Tree style. If you don't have one, you're not from the World Tree and different physical laws apply to you.]

[archadia.livejournal.com]

[I thought it was some kind of reference tome!]

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I voted low on the vices part because I think many who might come to your city to live there might prefer a refuge from being gawked at or disapproved, and they might not appreciate the implication tourists might have that they are 'easy' because they are traff. While you can certainly build a recreational tourism industry, you might want to make sure your citizens feel safe, first and foremost!

[rowyn]

But where's the doom in that?

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

I feel that one should encourage the types of vices that you want to see inside your city borders, and then back off and let things take a natural course. Otherwise, how would people know it's okay to do such things?

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I wanna change my vote to Wrongopolis!

[oh6.livejournal.com]

You can fill out the poll again by going to the poll link and selecting "fill out poll".

[terrana.livejournal.com]

I think as far as name and philosophy go, regardless of what is suggested here, you should come up with a clear and definite idea of which direction to go in. This ensures maximum disappointment and confusion when your clients-turned-subjects have a completely different idea, execute it, and you only find out via the outrage of neighbouring governmants.

I have pattern recognition, me.

[zeeth_kyrah]

I really think that you should start with a moderate base of such recreation, and then mildly discourage aggressive trade in it early on. That way you start easy and don't need to put a claw down quite as harshly later if it starts to get out of hand.

If you focus on that being your primary income, the other parts of the city have a chance of starving. This is where the agrarian base of the World Tree is such a helpful thing; self-sufficiency is easier if you have a field and/or a garden to help feed you.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

I offered Trans-Sylvania in semi-jest. Not only does it provide an apt description of a peripatetic city, but it also brings in an obscure cultural pun.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

*sings along with Rocky and Brad and Janet and Magenta*