Mammalia

Myriad Reality

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Why eight stops?

@DarkwolfX37

One for each sector. Also, follow me! *Walks down a flight of stairs off the platform and onto a bustling sidewalk with shops on either side*

Myriad Reality

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*Pouts slightly*

@DarkwolfX37

*Pouts back and then laughs* Sorry. But the Gyro's super cool, anyway. There's one on every other sector. It turns off friction completely, starts the ball moving really fast, and makes the gravity centripetal for lots of efficiency. Theoretically, it makes eight stops around the mountain, but the mountain gets bigger as you go down lower so the companies that make stations make extra stations for sectors that pay a fee. *Whispers* But don't tell anybody!

Myriad Reality

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That's a better number!

@DarkwolfX37

*Shrugs* I try not to think too much about numbers except when I’m doing Realmatic stuff. And even then I try not to think about numbers!

Myriad Reality

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*Waves my finger in the air as I mentally count* But aren't there currently two-hundred fifty-six sectors?
*Counts on my fingers* Seven... Forty-nine... One-ninety-six... Two-forty-nine... You'd save... seven sectors of space!

@DarkwolfX37

There's 288 sectors right now. With 7, 7, 7 we'd have 343.

Myriad Reality

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Why six, six, eight? Why not seven, seven, seven?

@DarkwolfX37

Seven is too prime. We could have done eight, eight, eight; but 64 levels was too much. We could have done six, six, six, but six sectors was too few.

Myriad Reality

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no but sorry I've been at church all day and I have an essay to write so I don't know when I'll be able to post

@Disdain

essay done

Myriad Reality

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*Stares outside silently in surprise*

@DarkwolfX37

That's what living on a mountain gives you! *The capsule transfers from one tube to another and slows to a stop right on top of another platform; it opens up and after you both get out I also get out* The city is split into six levels with six sublevels each, and each of those has 8 sectors. To get to the bakery, which is on the other side of the mountain, we'll have to take the Gyro!

Myriad Reality

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Oh.

@DarkwolfX37

Level 3E, conductor! *The capsule closes over us with glass and shoots down the mountain, opening up to the vista of a mountain range diagonally in one direction and a vast forest with a wide river in another* Oh yeah! *Whoops*

Myriad Reality

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*Bows really low to the man then gets in* But if they're doing it voluntarily, then isn't that like payment? Why not just pay them instead?

@DarkwolfX37

Oh, we're totally paying them. Someone just paid the company on our behalf, and that'll go to his pay. But it's not as personal.

Myriad Reality

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But... couldn't we do it without them?

@DarkwolfX37

Yeah, but they still gave of themselves for our sake. Just do it real quick and I'll explain more on the way down.