WEEK 1

[strangerpeople]

WEEK 1

[The train wouldn't stop. Not until very early the next morning. The few who might have been awake would be able to exit the train, entering the cool twilight of the dawn. The star is dark, and few stars can be seen in the sky as a cold breeze begins to blow from the mountain beyond. You can see some chunks of rock floating idly nearby, far away from the station that it won't hit trains, but near enough that one can see they are larger than the train they just disembarked.

Lastly, laid out in front of them, the first port of call: Menahoven. The mountain: The Throat of the World.

But which world? Who knows. Not any of yours. Maybe it doesn't matter. Not when you are so far from home. Not when you have no way to get off this rock without the aid of the trains-and they will not let you pass.

It looks like you're stuck here until the Conductor decides to leave. In the meantime, everyone will need to get comfortable.


There are fifteen strangers left in this place.]

Comments

[eternaldivide]

Well .. even if it's just person ruling change doesn't always happen when you wish it to.

[ guess that's just ... something that doesn't change does it ]

How old does one have to be to vote?

[biddentodance]

...yeah.

In Japan, twenty. Other countries it's different. Think it's eighteen in America.

[eternaldivide]

America ... is that another country? How many countries are there? Do they all have the same kind of leadership as Japan?

[biddentodance]

Yeah, it is. Around....two hundred or so? Maybe more? And nah. Think a lot of them do, and most don't have just a king or something anymore, but not all of them are like this.

[eternaldivide]

That is .... a lot of countries.

[ so many more than he expected ]

To be honest I'm finding it hard to imagine.

[biddentodance]

Well, all over the world. Lot of different people and cultures.

[eternaldivide]

Your world sounds ... unique.

[ it's the best way he can put it really. he looks back at the pyramid ]

But from what I've learned where we are from each have their own uniqueness to them.

[biddentodance]

Is it? Never really thought it was...

[But then, he's never had cause to.]

What's yours like?

[eternaldivide]

Before I came here I didn't think much of my world either.

[ ... ]

The world is split into two Kingdoms. [ which he's assumes are like the countries Minato has been speaking of?] There's the royal Capital of each Kingdom, where the King lives, and then scattered around the two Kingdoms are villages. The villages each have their own government, but they still must adhere to the laws of the kingdom and obey the King himself.

[biddentodance]

So medieval-ish. Only two countries... Must be huge.

[eternaldivide]

[ Mithos simply nods at that. Fantasy, medieval, whatever they want to call him or his world ]

Both spanned over multiple continents, each taking over half of the world. There was only one location where neither Kingdom ruled.

[biddentodance]

....A no man's land.

[It's hard to imagine nations that large, without being empires. That is, without being smaller countries that answer to the same greater one. But then, with how villages were described, maybe that is the case.]

[eternaldivide]

You could say that. It's where the source of energy that gave the world life was. It was considered a sacred ground to both kingdoms and was considered neutral ground.

[biddentodance]

Makes sense...

[Wait a second.]

Where it "was"?

[eternaldivide]

[ ... ah ]

War and Magitechnology consumed massive amounts of the world's energy. After a thousand years a peace treaty ended the war but ... the tree that was the source had already withered.

[biddentodance]

An ecological crisis...?

[That sounds. Well, that's the closest he can come up with.]

Seems....stupid, for two countries to be at war, when they're the only two countries.

[eternaldivide]

Mhm. Without the tree there's not enough energy for the world to sustain itself.

It all happened because of the development of magitechnology and human's lust for power. During the war they used powerful weapons which only hurt the source of mana further.

That's why ... we had to put an end to it. Even if it was too late for the tree.

[biddentodance]

Ah...

[A dying world. Too familiar. Minato is silent for a long moment, jaw clenched. He knows too well the reasons people call to Nyx.]

I'm sorry.

[eternaldivide]

[ Mithos offers a small smile ]

It's alright. It was a thousand years of human selfishness that caused it.

[ He says it's alright but there's a small edge to his tone. ]

If it helps ... the two countries had been split into two separate worlds to try to keep the remaining mana in balance until we, hopefully, revive the tree so it can generate mana again.

[biddentodance]

[Dislikes: being selfish]

That's....,.. can be fixed eventually, at least. Not too late.

[eternaldivide]

We're hoping. It takes the seed a hundred years to germinate so ... as long as nothing happens while we wait it'll be possible for us to revive it. But even then if humans decide to try to take advantage of it then .. history will do nothing but repeat itself.

[ dislikes: humans ]

[biddentodance]

...

[He doesn't want to say what part of him thinks.]

Said it's a tree? And Mithos Yggdrasil is planting it....

Interesting coincidence. Old myths from part of my world tell of a giant tree holding nine worlds together. Called it Yggdrasil, the World Tree.

[eternaldivide]

[ ...... wait what ]

Do you ... know anymore about those old myths?

[biddentodance]

Know some.... Better versed in Greek than Norse, but some. You....want to know more?

[eternaldivide]

If... you don't mind.

[ he doesn't believe it to be more than a coincidence but he's... still curious. he didn't expect to hear his last name being in some myth from someone else's world? ]