What if Londris is edging to Dakkru, who's rolling her eyes in a condescending way and Londris is kinda into that sort of thing. What if the curse is just incentive to keep you there for a little while because Londris enjoys an informal audience in addition to Dakkru's occasional direct stare - no matter how brief?
"If and maybe land" is fun.
Since reality "as we know it" is perceived, and thus not the "straight dope", how do we know how much of our experience is made up and how much of it is truly objective? ie. You can see the apple's skin, but you don't know that there's anything deeper until you cut into it and experience what lies beneath. Risky! With only sight, you would never know of it's taste, texture, scent and weight. Perhaps if we had more senses, we would have a far deeper knowledge of said fruit?
What if you took a gigantic step back and saw all that is living as a single, highly complex, dynamic entity rather than as individual entities? Perhaps the space that separates them is more of an illusion or a limitation on our perception? This would of course mean that you and I are just small pieces of a single life form. It would help to explain why your sense of self is the same as my sense of self.
If you really think about it, at the center of consciousness is "I". There's a sense of "me" that is not attached to the body. If you could slice away the body a strip at a time ( without all that distracting pain ), you would eventually be left with just a sense of "I" and perhaps your will and memories. Strip away those memories and the "I" that is me becomes identical to the "I" that is you. The only difference at that point is that this "I" and that "I' are in two different locations in spacetime. Obviously, a little hand waving is needed here since with all the slicing, death kind of becomes an issue.
Hey, what if magic was real ( like Magic with a "k" at the end ) and if magick acts performed within the game had real world effects (outside of the game)? As an example, while playing an mmorpg as yourself instead of as your character, you perform a destruction ritual against a fellow player who has really pissed you off. Afterwords, you go about your day and feel better about yourself and the fellow player who you cast the spell upon goes through a bout of depression and self loathing and unwittingly walks in front of a moving garbage truck on their way to work and dies and their family and friends suffer by their bedside and like, have only the crappy hospital food to eat for comfort?
This might sound kind of loopy and whatnot, so let me tie up the loose ends here. What if living your life in reality and living your life in a game world are effectively the same thing? In each case, you get to interact with fellow humans, join your minds ( thinking as a team ), modify each other's minds (exchange ideas), grow, mature, fall in love, break up, hate one another, and eventually die so to speak? Does it really matter if the place where our minds touch are virtual or real?
