[IC] Lost in Dreams [Graham]

[momothefiddler]

"Because each person can only make so many pitches and tones at a time."

He uses a lute to demonstrate.

"See I can play just a note, like this. Or I can play a note and the fifth, like this. And I can add in a minor third, like this. Then just extend the concept. As long as the music harmonizes properly, which is the composer's responsibility, and everyone's in time, which is why the conductor's there, it all fits together quite well. If one of those things is missing, though, I admit it merely ends up cacophonous."

[ericthered]

Malinidar: "Hmph. Sounds like an awful lot of work to me. Its a chore getting two lutes and a voice together."

Sykar: "We do this... but on a smaller scale than you I think. I do not do it much."

[momothefiddler]

"It's definitely a lot of work, but it's totally worth it. I used to be part of a few. That was several years ago, though..."

[ericthered]

Malinidar: "You were part of more than one? Wouldn't that be difficult? to have enough players to put together more than one?"

Sykar: "You just use the same people in different ways. you take a few, add a few, and you have a new orchestra. Right?"

[momothefiddler]

"Well, Sykar's idea is certainly possible, and there was some overlap - me, for instance - but for the most part it was different people. I grew up in a city of about half a million people, and that's not even a particularly big city in my world, so it's not as hard as you might think to find enough players."

[ericthered]

Malinidar: "You come from a city? that is not something I expected."

Sykar: "Half a thousand thousand? surely you exaggerate..."

Malinidar: "No, there are numbers like that in the great cities among the worlds. They change rapidly and tend to fall after a time, but they exist."

[momothefiddler]

"Why didn't you expect that?

And yeah. My world has a lot of people. Something around seven thousand thousand thousand. It's a bit full, honestly, but they know nothing of traveling to other worlds other than spaceflight, they don't have a way to go ftl, and there aren't any particularly good candidates in the system, so they just kinda squeeze in."

[ericthered]

Malinidar: "Most people don't live in cities. Very few people on this world do, and that's true for most of Slythana as well. Your world is... very crowded, I take it."

Sykar: "Lizards don't have cities bigger than 10,000. That is a very big city. How can you feed all the people?"

Note: the community you're currently in is less than 1,000.

[momothefiddler]

"It's... yes, it's very crowded. It takes a lot of specialization to get anything done, but we have large machines that we use to run gigantic farms and such. Some people still starve, but that's a political thing, not a logistical thing."

(Whoah. I'd imagined it as less than 100. I'll have to adjust my image then.)

[ericthered]

Sykar: "How can a machine run a farm..."

They start talking about Graham's world actually works. He finds that presenting himself as alien to the two racial enemies actually helps them forget their differences. They understand each other's world better than his (though anytime they start talking about their's, bickering arises).



OCC: there are six sets of 20 warriors, and the mages to buff them, plus those who don't fight (which isn't as many as you might think). So it isn't, say 850. it might be as many as 600 though.

Also, role play or skim this part as you desire.