You try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn [PUBLIC | VOICE | ALSO BROADCAST OVER THE RADIO]

[sciencejesusnow]

*music suddenly cuts out, replaced by the sound of a running engine*Have you ever really thought about what lurks below Reial's surface? And don't say 'rocks', if you say 'rocks' I'll track you down and castrate you for being such an unimaginative twat. 'Clouds' is also an unacceptable answer

Comments

[lilshiro_kun]

Water.

[ooc: He didn't say rocks or clouds ^^]

[sciencejesusnow]

That's a much more inventive response than either of the two that I stated, but even if we assume that it's correct, it raises more problems than it solves. To wit: if there's a big mass of water under us, what's holding it there? Water isn't cloud, it doesn't float freely on its own, it has to be sitting on something. So, is there some sort of bowl of rock containing the water? If there is, what's holding it up? How big is it? Etc.

[lilshiro_kun]

Only one way to find out.......go look for yourself.

[jaegermamma]

We knew. Once.

[sciencejesusnow]

Perhaps so, but we don't know now, which is more relevant.

[jaegermamma]

We are here now. Worrying bout things like dot only takes you out of the moment. Now is that any way to be living?

[sciencejesusnow]

If you never let anything take you out of the moment, you can easily become trapped in it.

[dragon_of_wei]

Well, after much deliberation with another upon the same topic...

I do believe there has been a few expeditions in the past towards the supposed world below us. It just happens that every expedition made towards the abyss has ended in failure many of those 'crack pots', as you call them, died during the journey. No one knows what lurks beneath our floating continent and at this rate...

No one shall ever know.

To fathom that such mysteries plague us so in our modern world irritates me to be quite honest. Humanity craves to seek and learn about the Unknown and yet...

Our people have not shown much interest in the mysteries of this world since the early century.

Why is that? Have we become so continent to our ignorance that we do not crave to see truth?

[peasant_king]

Men do not search because men do not care.

[dragon_of_wei]

Yes, to put my previous words in simpler terms...

Such ignorance on our part as a human race is quite unsettling in my opinion.

[peasant_king]

You mis-interpet me Commander Cao. My meaning as less to do with now as it is always.

Men have always been chocobo with their heads in the sand. Only when the beast has it's claws in them do they care to see.

It always bothers a few, but this doesn't change anything.

[saudade_red]

You're going to feel silly if it is rocks or clouds, aren't you?

[sciencejesusnow]

Quite possibly.

[peasant_king]

We came from somewhere. Man does not fall from the skies nor belong to them, that is obvious. I suspect there are people down there, mayhaps on other islands, perhaps on this 'bowl' you spoke of.

An optimist may say the explorers found a great truth and decided to stay. More likely they were eaten by monstrous water fish.

[bunansajr]

That's ... cheerful.

Don't you have any sense of adventure and wonder?

[peasant_king]

Of course, but a realistic one.

[bunansajr]

Ahh well. Clearly you need to get ready for some realistic adventures.