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[hasapoint]

So we're leaving the desert soon. Anyone want to bet on where we go next? What do you want to see? Personally, if I had my druthers: oak savanna. Get a lot more plants and trees around but they're not in dense stands. Good grazing country while still having shade and windbreaks. Maybe even real horses. These scaly ones are well enough but they're just not very expressive.

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[sometimes she draws that two reverse crescents symbol to 'sign' her contributions to the network, sometimes not. It looks like the crescent quillions of her sword, not that anyone here would know.]

Comments

[hasapoint]

[genuinely, she's not sure.]

Good point. If the next place is underwater, I'll take full responsibility. And start braiding my hair again, probably. It will look terrible, but such is my punishment.

[witnessvelama]

[He has a moment to wish he had more proof that it's not the case, but...]

It seems to me that these places are remnants of ones that were once occupied - I suppose there are cities that became flooded, when they were abandoned, but if they are truly unlivable climes, then it seems unlikely that we would stop there.

But if we do, my apologies Othalo that you will need to suffer so.

[hasapoint]

Though neither place we've seen so far is one where people would choose to stay in numbers if the usual requirements for food etc. Is it that these were set up by the Ferryman's previous passengers?

Think nothing of it, prelate, I was made to endure.

[witnessvelama]

I speculated with Mer Dankovsky that they, too, are dead places.

Forged, even?

[Look he's trying, okay.]

[hasapoint]

Hmm. Care to elaborate on that?

Remind me to look disappointed at you. I'm old enough I might forget.

[witnessvelama]

That these, two, are dead cities, abandoned to the echoes of time. It seems appropriate, for lost spirits too to find their homes among them, for a time.

I would not dare, Othalo.

[hasapoint]

If they're cities for the dead, maybe. In the normal course of things a city is a marker of society's ability to provide a great deal of food and move it about. They don't all have to be surrounded by farmland or have a harbor but there has to be a steady flow of people with resources. The cavern seemed well cut off from anywhere like that.

[witnessvelama]

Or they too are taken out of time and place. Some things must be, if we find remembrances of our own homes amongst them.

[hasapoint]

You have a point.

[sigh. she doesn't think he'll get that it's a pun and she doesn't want to explain it.]