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Is there any open land available to purchase? Just open land. With trees, preferably. Magehammer is a blacksmith, woodworker, stone cutter, and a copper worker. What else would he need to build a house from scratch?

Yeah, do that. Look for land for sale. 20 acres, at least.

(Doing Therapy)
This message was last edited by the player at 06:56, Thu 19 July 2018.

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 28):

"The mindtalkers, and the earthmovers and the weathercontrollers and the timebenders in the Towers.  I have a cousin who is a Level 2 Mindtalker in Tower Green Two." A balding redheaded man sitting next to you says.

"I mean sure, you can buy land, but why would you want to be away from the entertainments of the city if you don't have to be?"

When you say 'trees', everyone stares at you bugeyed for a second, and then everyone bursts out laughing near hysterically.  Some of them are crying they are laughing so hard.

"Are you a comedian at one of the clubs?" A girl with long brown hair asks you hopefully.

"Interesting." I say as I levitate my food tray a foot off the table, then place it back down.

What kind of reaction does that get?



"Good point!!!!" I say out loud.



Okay, I'm confused. "What? Where I come from, there's trees all over the place. Where did they go here?" I ask the hot girl with brown hair.

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 30):

"An earthmover!" Someone exclaims.  Another says how hard it must be to walk among the common Imperials.

"We burn them down, and chop them down, of course, silly.  Nasty things want to kill us." She smiles at you with good cheer.  Another one says 'earthmover' and people nod knowingly.  You realize they regard you as a bit 'eccentric'.

I say sarcastically "Eh, you get used to it after a while."

And if my food tray is empty, I levitate it up 20 feet off the ground, and send it flying away as fast and as far as possible. I hope to find it 30 miles away embedded in a tree.



Ask the hot brunette if she needs/wants a roommate for a little while, or if she can help me get a place to stay.

Once I've got a place to stay though, I'm just going to get cable TV and some cheap furniture and plant myself in front of the TV. Eat food delivery. Not leave the house for days at a time. I've been on enough adventures. Time to rest and relax.

Does the hot brunette have a boyfriend?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 32):

It flies out of the farmer's market.

She blushes deeply, and says nothing.

You are able to find an apartment.  Its a D rated apartment which includes its own bath and kitchen and three other rooms.  The ratings go from K, which is a sleeping hole all the way up to A.  And there is a great deal of uniformity to them, and a bit of slapdash building despite the bones of the building being made of crystal.

Your Floor Leader Reggie looks blankly at you when you ask for cable TV.  And he turns on the gas lamps as its getting toward nightfall.  The elevator was powered by Reggie using a moving crystal like in the wagon.

The room is already furnished with cheap furniture.

The only really nice things are the crystal balcony, fifteen stories up, and the gold inlaid words in one wall....'Hail to the Emperor.'

Ask Reggie what people do for fun around here. I like museums, theater, what does he suggest?

Psionics seem prevalent. What do the people do with them? Is there a remote viewing something or other that could take the place of TV?

Go out on the balcony, use psionic sight to see what I can see. What's around? Can I see in any windows? What do people like to do for fun around here?

NUTS!!! I was really hoping for a place to just sit down and watch television all day. I can't even imagine how people lived before it was invented.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 34):

"The Imperial Museum is good.  Also, there are three or four shows every night in Landing City, and of course, one can gamble, but be careful, the law favors the casino owners and the hosts of the rooms more than the player.  And there are dinner parties every night by some aspiring hostess."

"Well, mostly we beat back the forrest.  We use remote communications to summon squads of soldiers or squads of energy donors as needed.  We have to keep expanding because the soil is so poor."

No Psi TV.

There are tall buildings of blue crystal like you are in.  Shorter crystal buildings of a few stories which hold the commercial establishments.  There are a half dozen amphitheatres.  There is a military camp with tents and small buildings and combat ranges.  There are some very large and one story crystal buildings.

You see one amphitheatre is half full.  A play is on.  Others are enjoying the air at a few open parks with tables for food or just sitting.  And from up here, you get an even clearer sense of how temporary everything looks.  How quick it was flung up, and how no one really cares that the placeis in many cases poorly designed with too many dead end streets and little bits of useless land here and there.

Tomorrow I'll check out the museum.

So, sleep, and go to the museum upon awakening. Eat breakfast at one of the local fast food joints.

What's in the museum? I like museums. Esp. Science museums.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 36):

The most relevant part of the Museum at first is the History of the Empire.

A hologram lady appears and speaks.

"Earth the Lost. A legendary paradise with peace and harmony for all.  But our ancestors left it, and went to the Stars.  And over time, much time, we forgot the way home.  The stars shifted and the stargates moved.

But then the Mindlights were created.  A new, better breed of Man.  Smarter, more in depth of feeling unlike the cloddish normals.  We unified our planet, and created the Mindlight Empire under the First Emperor.  And then we stretched out and created the Ten Systems.  And for a thousand years, there was peace.

But the Normies, in their insensate greed, strove for what they could not use.  And they battered us, and we in our mercy agreed to let them have their Empire.  And we took the Mindgate to the new planet.

But we were betrayed.  Yes, the land is livable.  But the Trees of this land are a singular organism, and in order to find space to grow, we must beat them back.  Even as the Trees plot against us.  But with your help, Noble Blooded Imperial, we shall construct a new Jumpgate, and go to a world where we can rebuild our Lost Paradise."

Interesting. They think trees are sentient and out to get them. Sounds like a collective delusion. Or maybe the trees really are out to get them....... Remember kids, it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.

I'm suddenly reminded of a joke I made up as part of a stand-up comedy routine.

"If you've ever had (and lost) an argument with your coffee table about whether or not your neighbor's oak tree was trying to kill you, you might just be insane."

It was supposed to parody Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a Redneck." I wrote like 20 "You might just be insane" jokes.

But I digress.

Keep exploring the museum. What's next?

(Doing Therapy)
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There is a Room of Lost Creatures which shows the various genetically engineered beasts that the Ten Systems Empire had, but the exiled  Imperials all about you, do not.  Pet creatures such as the Hopping Bird and the Furry Friend stand next to hunting creatures such as the Lesser and Greater Targets and the Great Threat which stands next to the Earth Digger which is below the Solar Ray which eats stellar dust and soaks in sun in outer space.

A sad looking hologram man explains.

"None of these were able to be taken with us.  But in the new world we will escape too, we will build the vast industries needed for these creations.  But for now, in our time in this world of exile, we hold on to the genetic data to be taken out of cryostorage and used to build new herds of Hopping Birds."

Now I'm wondering what's powering all of this since they don't seem to have electricity. Ask the hologram or a human being if I see one.

What's next?

(Doing Therapy)

A room on Power Systems shows you what you need to know.

Steam engines and metal forming presses and lathes form steam tech.  And for other things, they have Power Crystals.

Steam engines but no electricity. I could draw a schematic for a power generator. I could build one. Is there anybody around here that works on the steam engines?

Maybe I could sell somebody the designs for an electrical generator and make a few million quid in the process? See about that. After the museum tour.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 42):

You find the patterns of the schematic slipping your mind.  For some reason you can't focus on them.  Its immensely frustrating.  You KNOW you know them, but....aaargh.

The last room if the Map Room.  It shows a too scale map.  From viewing it, there is a two hundred mile circle of cleared land with a dozen small villages, and one major town (yours), and a dozen times a dozen Towers of Sensitives near the edges of the Woods.

The small towns are Barracks for troops to quick march to the Edge when needed to serve as Trade Villages.

Along the walls are paintings of the different types of Trees with their various abilities such as expelling a cloud of fire resistant foam and needle throwers.

Might be interesting to acquire seeds for some of those..... Next world if I can Order/Chaos them...... Could be interesting.

Too bad about the generator. It's just uh, what? Magnets? No, it couldn't be magnets. Copper wire? Or was it zinc wire? No, that can't be right. Eh, I could have built one in my sleep when I was in high school.....

OOC) I take it the biases are too low for that to work?

Tour around town some more. What other points of interest are there?

(Doing Therapy)

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Hey Tadeusz, I just wanted to ask you something about our play style. Magehammer at all times wears a toolbelt and a backpack full of random supplies. Is it safe to say that, as far as you're concerned, he's carrying every single piece of his gear at all times?

The Magehammer that I run as referee, his backpack and toolbelt are four dimensional, infinite storage hypercubes. In short, they connect to alternate universes. He can keep literally as much of anything inside them. Size and weight of the objects are meaningless. He's got armored cars and tanks and jeeps and rigs of every size inside one pouch on his toolbelt. In another pouch, he's got the entire contents of the Fort Knox gold repository.

I don't expect it to get that extreme in our game, but is that kind of the concept you're working off of here? My backpack and toolbelt are four dimensional, infinite storage hypercubes and I can carry all of my gear at once?

Just wondering.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 45):

OOC: Yep, biases are low.

The trees have normal storage.  Other things, well, if I did a bag of holding, it would only have limited storage.  More like a closet or two than a full other world.

There is the Great Gate, which is not yet half-built but work goes on it steadily.  Its already a hundred feet across with its crystal circle being twenty feet thick, and an odd blue color.

There is a short line of people donating 'mind energy' into a large crystal.  Other such crystals are being put up, already charged, but this is for the random passerby who wants to help.

See if I can find a casino. Mind reading might come in handy playing Poker.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 47):

There is a casino and as soon as you walk in the door you feel static in the psi range.
It seems that you're not the first one to consider the idea.  The games are all forms of cards or of dart throwing.

The room is about fifty by fifty and about seventy people including the help are there.

The music is loud and bouncy and live.  A girl is singing about her soldier boy.

I that case, I think I'll forego the cheating at Poker. On a side note, these powers are so much more fun when nobody else has them.

I'll just stay here and enjoy the show. Get some food, listen to the music, see if any pretty girls want to talk, that kind of thing.

No gambling.

OOC) $350 worth of free advice. If you ever go on a cruise, stay the heck out of the casino!!!! On the last day, one of the pit bosses told me that on every cruise, there's always at least one guy who can't stay out of the casino, and that they knew it was me on the first day.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 49):

Pretty soon the casino staff have you figured out, and as long as you eat their overpriced snacks and drinks, they don't mind.  There are a few others doing as you're doing.

You notice a few poker variants and a blackjack like game, and something like Rook, and another game which is wholly new to you.

You manage to get a couple of girls laughing at your jokes, and talking to you.

"So what do you ladies like to do for fun around here?"

Trying to learn more about the local scene. What to do, where to go to have some fun.

Magehammer's had enough adventures. I just want to relax.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 51):

They and six other people take you on a group outing to a comedy at the amphitheatre.  Despite no electronics, you can hear the actors on the stage clearly.  And what shocks you, and then has you almost rolling on the floor is how funny, and sharply clever the play is.

The characters are believable, sensible, and etched very clearly, and the whole thing has you gasping for laughter a couple of times.  Everyone else is in the same state as you.

Some of the jokes you don't get because of specific cultural references, but otherwise you're fine.  And at the end of the play (and its intermissions of juggling and gymnastics) the others are commenting on the play with clever comments, and then you're startled to hear that this is a second rank play company.  If it had been filmed on Earth, it would have been Best Comedy of the Year and Best Film.