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[vile_queen]

[The writing is elegant, script. There’s curly lines and flourishes.]Forgive me for asking what likely has been asked before, but as we are in a tree in a bowl, living on islands that float and within its branches, why are all the job opportunities so mundane? I mean no insult to those who are employed, but it is a wonder that none of thought out

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[andcountry]

I guess it depends on what you would consider not-mundane. People need to do jobs that need to be done.

Though I suppose it's worth asking why "Head Fishbowl Glass Cleaner" is not a job that needs to be done.

I agree with the others about Adventuring. It's also possible that, because the rest of this place is so unusual, available employment has to make up for it.

[vile_queen]

It would of course be complicated to reach the glass and clean it.

Would one not expect to see the unusual in everything when they are born from a pod and live within a tree?

What is it that you do?

[andcountry]

Difficult, but surely not impossible.

Not if one considers being born from a pod and living in a tree unusual. Because none of us are pod-hatching, tree-dwelling creatures by nature we aren't likely to engage in activities sufficiently unusual to go with it. And if we did, we wouldn't consider any of that unusual anyway.

I'm an Adventurer, and I work part-time at the farm. Neither are unusual in and of themselves, but I wouldn't call either of them particularly mundane, either. In some cases it isn't so much the job itself but the specifics that make it strange.

[vile_queen]

There would be little reward unless it showed what was on the outside.

I see. You make an excellent point. One would by nature return to that which is commonplace. It is one way of adaptation.

What specifics of Adventuring make it strange?

[andcountry]

It would look pretty.

To put it more succinctly, yes.

I wouldn't say "strange" so much as "not at all mundane." The places the Wilderness turns into make for a lot of that. They run the gamut from strange to dangerous, but I wouldn't call anything except the paperwork part of the job mundane.

[vile_queen]

Pretty is irrelevant. It serves little purpose.

Then tell me of the places the Wilderness has changed to that are strange and dangerous.