This post has the following content warnings:
Akira mixes things up in Limbo
+ Show First Post
Total: 744
Posts Per Page:
Permalink

"You're welcome." It's great how much everyone likes her gifts here. She wanders around for a while watching people do things. If nobody approaches her she'll pick something else to do.

Permalink

They are building and carving and taking baths and installing lights and sewing and laughing and chattering in their village pidgin.

Permalink

She'll watch for a while and then go make a beach on the side of the ocean.

Permalink

It's not totally unlike a beach already but it's definitely more mud than sand.

Permalink

Sand seems more classically beachy to her and also people here seem to like variety.

Permalink

They do! They're pretty occupied with the current variety but someone does call a thank-you for the sand.

Permalink

Hmm everyone seems pretty busy and happy at this point. She asks for directions to where the next concordance will be and starts heading in that general direction.

Permalink

It's a couple months' walk That Way.

Permalink

A couple months is a long time so obviously she won't walk. She summons a golf cart gets in it and drives at about 66 kph.

Permalink

That is faster than walking and will cut down her travel time considerably, though not down to "a quick jaunt". There are more villages, mostly clustered around trees and other stationary Limbo Things - houses, temples, ponds, a golf course, a theater.

Permalink

How interesting, a golf course. That sounds fitting considering her current mode of transport. She'll stop and visit that.

Permalink

It's pretty crowded for a golf course - people are hanging out on it apparently just to enjoy lying on the grass - but it's still recognizably that, with perfectly maintained grass and sand traps and all. Three people are actually golfing around the people who are lounging on its slopes.

Permalink

Huh, that is unusual but she supposes it makes sense with how this place works. She finds someone and says hello.

Permalink

"Hi," says this person who is lying on the "beach" of a water hazard.

Permalink

"Hi, I think this is the biggest thing I've seen other than the ocean. It's weird how much people's one thing seems to vary in size isn't it?"

Permalink

"Yeah, it really is. This one is Josh's, but he's not here right now."

Permalink

"Oh so people can leave their thing behind and go elsewhere? I didn't realize. I figured whoever had the ocean was one of the people hanging around there."

Permalink

"I don't know whose the ocean is. Maybe they just swim all the time. Maybe they got sick of it a hundred years ago, the ocean's been around a while."

Permalink

"That would make sense, I didn't look through the whole ocean but what I did see was just water and nothing else no cool fish or coral reefs or underwater volcanos."

Permalink

"Yeah. I guess a cool ocean would be more than one thing."

Permalink

"What sorts of things do you wish Limbo had that it doesn't?"

Permalink

"Plants. And maybe weather. Not a lot of weather, but like, any weather. I miss clouds. I can't believe nobody's managed to die firm in the conviction that whatever the afterlife is like it at least needs clouds, that's a pop culture staple. Maybe clouds aren't thingy enough."

Permalink

"Hmm, clouds.... I can see that. It is a little boring having a clear sky all the time. I don't feel like there's enough wind to blow them around though. They'd just be fixed in place like this golf course."

Permalink

"Wind would be nice too. We sometimes get a little breeze, this close to the ocean, but mostly it's dead."

Permalink

"I could make permanent clouds, for real though. I'm just not sure that's what you really mean. There's a few types I could make actually. There's insubstantial ones and then ones you can stand on." She appears a block about a hand across of both types between them.

Total: 744
Posts Per Page: