Cross'd Roads OOC 26

I wouldn't mind the familiarity, nor the language barrier. I'll just go edit my post. :p

Weeheehee. You do realise he's going to call his dog...

Although, durnit, means she will only have understood half of the conversation (Mendel's half).

Yess.

Anke, any objection from Sylvie if Basaltine takes off running?

Nah, she's got work to do, anyway.

Read: I'm out of ideas.

For the record, he said something like "uh oh, duty calls and I must depart, my precious flower".

"I, er, a wizard did it," Suitov said. "Weft poofs here," Basaltine helpfully added. "Iiiiii'll get back to you on that one shortly," Mutt pronounced, with an amused smirk directed at des own reluctance to worldbuild too much on shared turf without getting others involved.

In other words, anyone else got anything to add? I've been BSing most of Suitov's findings on the spot, element distributions excluded.

"Causing consternation since 1330," said Helmine.



No wai, I has nothing to add.

Oh, at least it's "I've been holding off deliberately on deciding this" rather than "duh, hadn't thoughtta that"...

("Hellie likes me best!" insisted Basaltine. "She dinna feed you."
"And I thought I was delusional," commented that other Weft, peeking in from somewhere.)

Well, there'd had to be more or less permanent ways to Weftworld and Shade, at least, no?

Spontaneous gates are the other main possibility.

(that I'd previously thought of - not counting ways that are unique to the individual.)

How "spontaneous", exactly? All of them being completely random doesn't fit with prior events (Weft nipping off home for prayer time and coming back, or walking off home together with Sebs, or Suitov hiring workers to get here in a particular time), and I thought this was at a rubbery point in time where worldgates weren't cracked yet...

Way in doesn't have to = way out, though.

There's the curse on the inn, for one thing. That draws victims in and occasionally confuses them when they try to leave but doesn't itself provide a way out.

And it's well-established that some characters appear randomly and unexpectedly.

Worldgates not being understood yet would seem to be a benefit, not a drawback, for our (authors') purposes. The purpose of the inn board being, more or less, to do whatever we want without too much stress when it comes to characters getting there.

I think we're talking past each other.

Yes, people turn up randomly, nothing wrong with that. I mean, Suitov said that the area around the central crossing was constant, but things further away changed around.

However, from what you've written so far on the board(s), it seems like Weft is able to go home whenever he pleases (well, has to), and come back with as little trouble.

Likewise the workers who fixed the Inn. They came at a certain point of time when Swiff ordered them, and I'm sure they'd have been pissed off if they suddenly had no way back.

So there'd have to be some reliable way to get from the Inn to Offwhite, and the other direction, at the very least.

Yes, I followed all that. What I'm saying is that the way here doesn't have to be the same as the way back, and my way here doesn't have the be the same as your way here.

Ah, I think I have found the point of confusion this time. "I've been holding off deliberately on deciding this" sounded like you wanted help deciding. :)

Snog, would you prefer me to point H somewhere unspecified and let you fill in the details?

Assuming she wants to leave straightaway, that is.

She's not going anywhere until she has a bath and some rest.