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[some time into the coffeshop liminal] Informed voting

I know the candies represent potential Jaunt worlds, but has anyone been able to identify which worlds they are? I know the blue ones symbolize the Grid and the lavender ones Questing Country, but I'm still unclear on the other two.

While we're on the subject, the voting area looks to be another Jaunt reference; specifically, it looks like the Ground coffeeshop from La Tour Ivoire Academe.

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Listen, this is all academic 'cause I don't think we should vote, but we did have that animal walkabout where we lived in a mine and had parties every day. All the humans were wiped out somehow so it could be a return to one of the worlds you've seen before. Without visuals, I don't know how you'd tell them apart, though. They were more realistic animals than what you guys were in Yensid.

['To vote or not to vote' is not a discussion Raidou is prepared to have right now (and they probably both know Chloe is outnumbered on this point, anyway). The rest, though...]

Home was another thought, but I'm not sure how many of us would be up for a return visit there.

The candy had a definite impression of berries and fresh-baked bread to it, along with a breeze ruffling through fur. Does that sound like the walkabout you were on?

[Yeah, yeah, she's just saying...]

Home was more... desert-y, right? All that sand. I don't think it's that. Besides, they’re all split up there, now, unless they send us way before it way after.

Brockengard was cooler, temperature-wise. The caves where we lived were right by the sea. The last feast was some kind of season changing renewal thing, and we all had bread, cheese and berry wine.

Were there forests?

[Since Yukino just mentioned forests]

Yeah, on the way to the ruins.

So it's a definite possibility...

They're - like, I don't want to doom a world to get ruined just because it won't fuck us up as bad but it was nice there.

I can understand that.

[Both parts of the sentiment, really]

Wiped out?

Yeah. Some of the workers found human remains in the ruins. Really old ones.

Weird.

Were there any clues as to what happened? Or any the animal-people would have recognized as clues? ...Actually, did they even know humans were ever a thing before that?

Not really. We knew that there used to be big ancient animals who had built and lived in the ruins, but not what they looked like or anything. My overlay was super freaked out about their long legs.

We probably do look pretty weird to animals, come to think of it.

She was a raccoon - like, a regular-sized one - and she was always having to climb to push buttons, so she’d figured they were tall, but...

I don't know what happened to them, though. The guys accidentally broke the door to a mausoleum, so there’d still been people left when they died.

But knowing something in theory isn't the same as seeing the actual evidence.

I wonder what did happen to them.

The ruins were still standing, so it wasn't the kind of war that takes out whole cities. Could be a plague, or some weird weapon that kills people but leaves infrastructure intact. I don't think the animals got smart until after it already happened.

That's another thing I'm wondering about - the animals, and why some species got smart and others apparently didn't.

...Although if all of them got smart, that'd be kind of hellish given the predator/prey divide.

Yeah, that was a big deal. I think Brockengard was one of the only places where herbivores and carnivores lived together. They had a big covenant about not eating each other, which... didn't really bother me at the time but is kind of creepy in retrospect.

Well... good for them for trying, I guess, but... that had to be really stressful in the beginning especially.

Must have been. It still wasn't a perfect peace and they weren't exactly roommates or anything. It worked there because of the proximity to the coast. Tons of fish, so there's meat even if the cows have a bad season.

Yeah, I'd imagine a good food supply is critical in a situation like that. For both groups, really.

I think that's probably why we partied all the time - important reminders that we were all sentient beings who liked each other.

Keep everybody's moods up so they're hopefully not thinking about murder?

That too, the wine made everyone pretty cheerful. But it reminds them of their ideals, too, I guess. They called the dawning season 'love and peace'.

What were the other seasons called?

	
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