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I'm too tired to give an explanation of what's going on here rn (There is one, I swear!). I'll probably replace this description with something more coherent tomorrow. Basically it's some ideas I loosely had for a DMFA au (more specifically) like seven months ago that I decided to retool into a sort of bizzaro version of the Ahri Empire. I alluded to
Quote from: Anders48 on July 21, 2025, 04:44:52 PMA government driven policy to boost economic growth by 'adapting' technologies from other universes, existential angst, [and] someone higher up on the multiversal food chain told them to.
as three possible [if presumably odd] reasons a society might engage in the multiverse. For this society these three factors* are
the core reasons they venture out at all. I also have a fic in the works that involves them [Prophet and the Loss is currently stalled because it started coming off as way too real with how the state of the world is].
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*Plus 'furthering infighting between different factions' as a equally strong fourth.
[this post was just me having an existential crisis because I forgot how linking images worked. Please ignore]
Moving on, I have one chief story idea here, which basically revolves around...well, let me show you.
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Nope, this isn't just me being weird again. Actually, none of these images are things that I created, or even really art in the traditional sense. They're diagrams from Stephen Marshall's 2004 book Streets and Patterns (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203589397/streets-patterns-stephen-marshall). Because this time around I'm going to write about someone trying to solve LaRaGa's problems through urban design and modernist architecture. Somehow. Granted, none of the main conflicts in LaRaGa are things the urban design profession has a tradition of solving, and granted, she's only here because of some kind of black budget project her home society is backing in order to accomplish god-knows-what. And granted, she's also somehow being stalked across time and across universes by seven cities from the Book of Revelations*. And granted, her plans are consistently opposed by the intelligence services of a nonexistent, fictional country that somehow has designs on LaRaGa anyway. But if we let little stuff like that get in the way of progress, how could we ever get anything done?
*Or possibly just seven American cities that just happened to be named after cities from the Book of Revelations (as Americans do), and acquired malevolent reality warping properties for unrelated reasons. You never know!