paradisabeyond | (no subject)

[Good evening, explorers! After departing from Cair Paradisa, the path was south at first, but turned west fairly early on. Skirting well south of Eldritch Forest, the travelers had camped near the edge of the Amber Steppe, not quite within sight of the forest that marks the Totem Coast. The grasses are parched brown by the heat, though greener patches mark the presence of water. It's near one of these - a small, bubbling stream leading west that Raine has chosen to follow as it will almost certainly run into the river marked on her map - that the travelers have made their camp.

The carts and wagons are arranged in a defensive circle, though the campers are free to set up their tents outside them as well as inside wher ethe rest of them are. There are small cooking fires scattered around as well as a large bonfire in the center for socializing.

Play music? Sing? Teach those poor non-Earth kids how to make s'mores? Or just sit around and socialize with others.

Or hide in your tent and ignore everyone, if you really want to.]

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...And people pay money to sleep like that? Don't get get claustrophobic?

I'm sure some people do, but ... people in Japan are used to not having a lot of space, because it's a really small country with a pretty big population. Whole families will live in places the size of our rooms back at the castle.

[Kind of in a faraway voice] Some people in my world believe there are whole towns on a speck of dust.

...

Anyway. I guess if you're used to there not being a lot of space, it's not awkward for you to sleep in what's basically a penthouse coffin.

... Whole towns? Really? Wow! ... Has anyone ever proven it? That sounds like it'd be amazing...

[sorry, we are off Japanese hotels and on to your world now, because FASCINATING]

Not as far as I know. It's just a bunch of kooky scientists, really.

Hey, some of the best scientists are kooky scientists. [that isn't said out of personal bias or anything N O P E]

Not denying that. [Screw you all, they can defy the laws of physics if they want to]

Heck yeah. [fistbump?]