09-09-2018, 08:08 PM | #1021 |
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09-09-2018, 08:30 PM | #1022 | |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
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The PCs may not share the Laughing God's sense of humor.
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09-09-2018, 11:50 PM | #1023 |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
Perhaps it evaporates as it falls, and somehow there's a massive toridal flow bringing the water vapor up and over the disc of the world.
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09-10-2018, 07:03 AM | #1024 | |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
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There are many ways to solve this. Water falls up into the sky. That's part of where clouds come from. Thanks to CS Lewis and voyage of the dawn treader. There is a wall around the Earth. Please don't make a hole in it. The world is shaped like a coin. There is a second side, and gravity is reversed there. Conversation of matter? Wow, you've put a lot of thought into this fringe theory! water forms in the sky, runs into the ocean, and then falls off the edge of the world!
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09-10-2018, 07:27 AM | #1025 |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
The elephants blast it back up with their trunks.
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09-10-2018, 10:57 AM | #1026 |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
Now that leads to a _weird_ parallel.
"Hey Gallium! Long time no see!" "That's why they call me a rare earth!"
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09-10-2018, 11:36 AM | #1027 |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
Not every reality has such taciturn kami as ours.
That would make for a weird parallel. Who needs shamans, when the spirits talk to everyone?
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09-10-2018, 01:39 PM | #1028 |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
"I can call spirits from the vasty deep!"
"Why so can I or any man, but can you get the bastards to shut up and go away!"
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09-11-2018, 05:53 AM | #1029 |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
Try this one...
On this parallel, an individual's luck is decided by how closely they stick to the local morality. Luck based advantages and disadvantages effect this, but they rarely completely erase the effect. Example: A nation that promotes equality and social justice long enough and it becomes unlucky to be racist, with the intensity of the racism matching the intensity of the bad luck. Any big social change would be hard to start, but once you got some folks convinced, it could move quickly. What's lucky or unlucky is local. In the 1850's South Slavery was lucky in Georga and unlucky in Vermont. Note, luck follows actual beliefs not mere fashions of the moment.
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09-11-2018, 06:36 AM | #1030 |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
There are a lot of people for whom that distinction is meaningless.
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