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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.
Re: Our ball world
Date: 2004-02-09 04:17 pm (UTC)Instead of the sun going around our world, our world goes around its sun. So do several other worlds, but we are not aware of anyone living on them. This is, in fact, a matter that our people have argued about for many lifetimes: does anyone live on the other worlds, and if so, what are they like? Some people think that there may be plants or very small animals (do you have bacteria on the World Tree?) on the other worlds, but no intelligent beings or even large animals. Others think that the other worlds have very strange beings living in them, drifting through the air.
Re: Our ball world
Date: 2004-02-09 05:19 pm (UTC)We do, indeed, have plants and very small animals. And strange beings who drift through the air; some of them are Khtsoyis [the aerial cephalopod prime species.]
For that matter, I have been known to drift through the air myself.
Re: Our ball world
Date: 2004-02-09 06:08 pm (UTC)We also have a moon, which travels around our world in a similar fashion.
Re: Our ball world
Date: 2004-02-09 07:59 pm (UTC)You don't live in a world. You live in a whirled.
Re: Our ball world
Date: 2004-02-09 08:06 pm (UTC)Might imagine up a world that does have such things though, so thanks for the idea.
Re: Our ball world
Date: 2004-02-10 06:33 pm (UTC)It certainly feels as though we live in a whirled, sometimes.