[003] [Thought we'd be the last to go]

[monoideist]

With the talk of a storm, I can't help but wonder just how weather forms in such an environment-- or how the area itself works. I suppose the Tree is large enough to facilitate its ecosystem, but what does the tree live off of? Surely not the objects found in the Scavenger's yard. ...Though with things such as the islands and wilderness, I'm not

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[burntorangesky]

Somewhat more interesting than how we can have a weather system might be the question of how we can have such things as chocolate rain or alcoholic precipitation.

Good questions, all of them, but I don't know the answers.

[monoideist]

Chocolate Rain? I don't believe I've seen that.

I'm not sure they would be questions anyone could answer without knowing what sort of structure we're in to begin with. If this is all man-made and controlled, then just what controls it? And is it automated, or man-controlled?

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[burntorangesky]

Hot chocolate, to be accurate. It happened some time ago, before your [pause] arrival.

As you say, I don't think anyone would know those answers. You may wish to be cautious about what you write on the journals. Questions can be dangerous on such a public forum.

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[monoideist]

I see. I suppose strange weather phenomena are to be expected.

[A pause.] I take it many don't care? I had heard warnings, but it's hardly anything we don't all notice.

[sixthsinner]

I was out with Cheers last week, but I haven't seen her since. Check her place lately?

[monoideist]

I stopped by a day or so ago or so and left a note, but I assume she was out.

[...he totally broke into her house to leave that note. :< /creeper]

[sixthsinner]

Well, if she sees this, she'll probably reply, unless she's avoiding you.

[goddamn dyad what a freak]

[monoideist]

Hopefully I haven't offended her as of late.

[HEY. HEY. HE HAD KEYS, OKAY. i mean he had to lift them from housekeeping but HE WAS WORRIED.]

[live_ringer]

I couldn't tell you about the weather one way or the other, but I always got the impression the roots may get whatever they feed off from the third or fourth floors. I'll agree, the scrapyard isn't exactly nourishing, but the wilderness changes so often--there's probably some sort of outside energy source that causes that cycling and it might be enough to sustain a tree of this size. (Just a theory, and not one that I have any way of supporting.)

You know, now that you mention it, I've not seen Cheers at the bar in some time. I thought her shifts had been switched or something.

...The map's been like that for some time. Since before you got b here.

[monoideist]

That would make as much sense as any other theory-- unless, of course, the tree is being upkept my something else. For all I know, though, it's of a type that requires something completely different to exist.

I suppose with the environment being as large as it is a water cycle is possible, which explains the snow and rain...

Has it? Do you have any idea what it means?

[live_ringer]

It might be. There are so many things here that I'm utterly unfamiliar with, it wouldn't surprise me if the Tree is a different sort of organism altogether.

True. What I have to wonder about is the sort of strong wind currents it'd take for a storm. It's possible that could come in from the top of the globe. Or the glass might even be some sort of matrix, rather than a solid surface, allowing air to come through.

It came about after the big Fire, I think. All the islands shifted, then. Whoever's in charge of the maps had to redraw, I'm sure... maybe the person who's usually in charge of that was taken out by the fire.

[monoideist]

[Pen taps] I suppose it doesn't necessarily have to be glass. Still, it's strange.

There was a fire, then? I suppose that would make sense. Thank you, Gene. The tone of it is as though they orchestrated the islands themselves, but it could simply be a remark upon the shift.

Perhaps I'm over-thinking about this all. I suppose I just get a little restless.

[desig_survivor]

I don't know how weather forms somewhere enclosed like this, or if there's really a storm on the way - but the air pressure has changed pretty drastically over the course of the day. Can you feel it? Around your eyes and ears?

[monoideist]

Yes, which was why I posed the question. If the glass sphere is enclosed, then there shouldn't be any pressure changes without some sort of drastic change to the environment, or an outside force acting upon it.

[desig_survivor]

No, there can be pressure changes in enclosed areas. It's - the climate control systems. I don't remember how, but on a ship or a station the pressure can - yes, that's it. A ship and a station can have different atmospheric pressures, and when they interface they have to equalize. Just as a ship coming dirtside and opening up equalizes. I don't remember how or why these are changed at the climate control systems, though.

I could imagine precipitation, if the sphere was closed - evaporated water building up and coming back down. It's big enough. But the sphere's not enclosed.

[monoideist]

That would be an outside force. Matter does not simply vanish, it must be displaced somewhere or come from somewhere for something such as an airlock to work. Air or water must be drawn in or expelled out to equalize the pressure, it isn't a magical device.

...The sphere isn't enclosed, then? You might have just said that.

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[feathered_earth]

Your map has that on the back too? That's odd.

I think it must be a very powerful kind of magic.

Ditto~

[monoideist]

So it's the same for others? That's bizarre. To the maps work the same as the journals, perhaps?

...Magic?

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[feathered_earth]

[pause] I just doodled a stick-figure on mine. Check yours to see if it shows up.

Yeah. The floating islands, the Hatchery--it has to be.

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[monoideist]

[another pause!] No, nothing.

Most magic is simply good illusions, though.