Answer the first

[sythyry]

moosl asks: I am an off-worlder and view your world sporadically. Where can one learn of your world succintly?

IC: I must admit that I have never, myself, left the World Tree, and I am not as familiar as I might be with whatever books may appear in offworld bookstores.

For that matter, do offworlds even use proper books? On the Water-Tree, evidently, there are speaking icicles used instead of books ... though, in other stories, someone does talk about "peeling the hero's hide off and using it to bind some low-grade pornography." Perhaps speaking icicles are sold in leather sheaths, I suppose.

Still, I daresay that you live in a somewhat more real universe than the Water-Tree. What do books look like there?

OOC: You can buy the World Tree book. The first half of it is a travelogue or fictional ethnography of the World Tree. The second half is the actual RPG rules. We did intend that the first half stand on its own, as a work of fictional nonfiction, and many non-gamers have enjoyed it as that.

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... the bit that got missed

[petersheil.livejournal.com]

does that help explain it? I do hope so. i know it must seem very strange to you but then your world seems strange to us. our world is a ver beautiful place and I can show you some pictures of things on it if you would like to see them.

As to the flying birds with lightening bolts, I have to admit that I don't understand all the details but I think if you imagine that the birds are very very small ... much smaller than you could see with your eyes even right close up ... and that the birds can fly at a number of different speeds which causes them to go in different directions then it is roughly right. We have a science called quantum physics which explains a lot of things like that (and would probably relate to the magik in your world) but I have not studied it so I cannot explain all the details.

Perhaps ypu can tell me, was I polite with the way I ended my lasty message? I thought that "May your fire never grow cold and may your magik flourish" would be polite to you, I hope it was. Normally I end my messages like this :

Peace
peter

[Hope that is OK with you too]

Re: ... the bit that got missed

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

We have a science called quantum physics which explains a lot of things like that (and would probably relate to the magik in your world)

There are certainly quantal aspects to magic. For example, spells are categorized by complexity, measured by the amount of cley necessary to learn the spell. The complexity of a spell is always a multiple of 5. I imagine your quantum physics is something similar.

Perhaps ypu can tell me, was I polite with the way I ended my lasty message? I thought that "May your fire never grow cold and may your magik flourish" would be polite to you,

That is indeed polite! Admittedly, it is not the current court farewell of Vheshrame -- but there's no reason you would know or care about the current court farewell of Vheshrame. Even in Daukrhame they don't care about it, and Daukrhame is unimaginably closer than your supposedly-bally cosmos.

The smile of Reluu ever upon your head, the ghost of brandy ever upon your lips, and perfumed silk rolled out before you to tread upon! (And that is the court farewell of Vheshrame, as of a month ago. It might have changed. At the Academy we don't always care very much about it, except for some people, and the Academy is a lot closer to the court than Daukhrame.)

But peace is a truly excellent thing as well, and may you have some of that, O Peter!

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[tempralisis.livejournal.com]

Last I checked, our quantum physics was more akin to a statistical analysis of the universe. Effectively, trying to work out the likely hood of various small events. Apparently, at the very small scale, our universe follows these laws precisely (events don’t “happen”, but they do have a probability of occurring). This is what physicists call “wonky”.

As a note, no one actually understands quantum physics. If someone says that they understand it, they are either lying, or insane.

As a further note, to get a feel for quantum physics, imagine if Hressh-Huu was the goddess of all things smaller than a gain of sand, instead of air and weather.

-Tau