Dwarfs digging and trying to separate their strip of land to prevent further goblin invasions.

The world is "fraying"...

Each two-sided strip has opposite concepts.

i.e. Fire world, ice world, living world, dead world...

Each strip has developed different cultures, with cultures exchanging goods and ideas only when the strips intersect.

Some histories are horribly outdated on some strips and lead to conflicts based on outdated precepts.

>>5182754

...due to Mobeius loops.

There is no communism, only democracy.

strippers are not girls who get naked for money, but the generic name of the people who routinely travel from strip to strip, like merchants, bandits and adventures.

everyone has an evil twin, a gender-inversed twin, and an evil gender-inversed twin. Few, however, actually ever meet.

The strips of land rotate on their framework, occasionally coming into contact with others, while some remain isolated for millenia.

Some smartasses on one strip are beginning construction on what they call "The Jackhammer of the Apocalypse"

Sergals form the ruling class of all of the nations in the world.

the space between the strips its full of breathable air, and while some beasts can fly in the vast voids between them no machine can withstand the fucked up density variations, and balloons always stop "ascending" in the middle point between two adjacent strips, hence why you cannot simply cut the trip by simply flying upwards to the next strip over, even when they're close enough to be visible.

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Not OP, but these seem the most cohesive as a set so far.

There are small bits of strips that have seperated from the framework and just float there in midair, isolated forever. Noone knows what's on these.

Everyone wears brightly colored boots.

>>5182803
no please, they migth have a strip somewhere were they cannot be encountered if the GM doesnt want them , but no race dominates all strips and few are ever encountered outside it's native strip.

not only sergals, no race is to be forced, if someone wants to run a game in the sweet little pony strip they dont need to find kender.

>>5182834
...on the disco strip. and funky sunglasses in the susnset strip, the one wich always rotates whit the edge facing the sun so it's permanently "setting" but never actually sets or raises more than a few degrees.

....
There are Strip Clubs.

>>5182857
... that is total bullshit parody answer, but damned if it isn't actually a really cool idea.

Everyone is a hermaphrodite.

EVERYONE.

The only way to travel between strips is with powerful magic and the help of an animal that can fly - and a long, long, long time.

The world is bigger than normal - each strip has enough land to be considered a continent. There are thousands of strips.

Hmm.. Some strips have long walls crossing their entire width?

Oceans stop at the edge for some odd reason?

Good strips cannon die.

>>5182938
oceans bend around the edges, you can travel to the other face by sea. on the edges where there's no sea there's mountain ranges and volcanic ridges.

>>5182878
...on the plant strip, the one dryads "cleansed" of vertebrate life.

>>5183056

I'm totally stealing that as a feature of the Fey

>>5183113
You're not the OP. Ugh.

>>5183113
yea, Op doesnt steal, he's developing this setting community style, under attribution-share alike creative commons or one of those other made up licences that have no real legal weight.

are faintly visible behind the central star of the system, and are given names as celestial bodies from other places in the strips where they are visible. they're just another element of the sky

>>5183236
who?

>>5183264
the strands
(firefox is being a fuckwit)

Deep in the center of each strand lies a single, endless tube of an unbreakable metal, 5'6" in diameter. They are hollow, but no one has ever found a way of getting inside one.

The strips are organized into a loose grid, which if you go on long enough wraps around on itself, like a tube. It is thought that this tube might meet its own end, and form a torus, but it is unknown.


Along the center of this tube, out of visual range due to clouds and light generation, is something large and alive.

to create night and day each strip twists along it's long axis. well except the sunset strip.

Creatures living on the strip are so attuned to the natural flow of the strip's movement, that they can feel impacts and forces applied (measuring in megatons at least) from anywhere on it.

>>5183156 No, I'm >>5183127 and the OP. I just like what TG comes up with. When it isn't Frosted Butts.

I love these threads so much.

On the opposite sides of the strips: one side is heavily magic based and perceives the center of the universe as a red burning star. The other side has no magic whatsoever and instead relies heavily on technology. They perceive the center of the universe as as hundreds of thousands of contrarirotating gyrotic rings.

One *could* cross over to the opposite side of one's strip, but this would prove to be extremely difficult as your own, normal gravity still applies on the other side (hence, you'd fall off the strip and die while everyone else would be looking "up" as you "fall.")

The strips closest to the center of the universe are chock full of absolutely batshit insane people on both sides of the strip. Newcomers to one of these strips will begin to exhibit signs of extreme paranoia, irrational fears, and nervous tics.

Elves in this world are best described as nerd-communists. There are two distinct castes, the "Creators" and the "Critics". The Creators make entertainment, be it songs, curious and interesting spells, stories, or new technology to amuse yourself, and pass it out to the Critics. The Critics then look it over in every way possible, trying to find fault with it. When the Creators feel they've ironed out all of the issues the Critics bring up, they release it to the rest of the races, in trade for food and whatever resources are needed for the Creator's NEXT idea.

Elven, as a language, is kept secret, and people who can speak Elven are in high demand to translate stolen notes/stories.

Every race chases Ascension - they can tap into innate magic, spiritual styled magic at different levels. Of the nine out of ten levels, each one increases your skill and stat maximums. At the tenth you become a being of immortal light and magic, forever preserved into a lattice of light and arcane power to contest with the others who have achieved this state.

>>5183797
Then I'm guessing that the Elven strip touches a lot of others fairly commonly?

All swords in this world are exactly four feet long. No-one knows why.
People have tried to make ones of different lengths, but they always come out at four feet.

One of the floating piece sof strip that has separated spends is inhabited by a small, inbred community who spend their days trying to work out how to unite the strips to achieve the final grade of Ascension.

Someone archive please!

SPOILERS: (feel free to disregard this one)

The universe functions as a gigantic puzzle, designed by a being possessing powers far beyond our ken. The central "sun" of the world is the safe itself, while the strips function as a massive combinational lock.

The universe was initially lifeless. However, either due to some fault in the safe or the overwhelming power of the artifact, magic has been slowly seeping into the universe, giving rise to all kinds of life-forms on the various strips, and allowing these lifeforms to manipulate this magic to their own ends, allowing some of them to reach what they deem "Ascension": a state of god-like power.

In order to possess the artifact, one was either achieve True Ascension and use one's power to infiltrate the "safe" or one must find the means of controlling the rotation of the strips. The metal tubes >>5183328 mentions are a part of the combi-lock, forming runes of an unknown language when properly fitted together, thus allowing the "safe" to be unlocked.

Two problems: The opening of the "safe" would bathe in the universe in the full brunt of the artifacts power, which before was only seeping out through some small fissure. This would feel like a light breeze to the being who created this universe, but would instantaneously destroy all of the lesser life-forms in the universe.

The second problem is that every deific eye in the multiverse would turn to the universe and rush in to claim the artifact.

Why are qwe talking about the universe? I thought we were on one bizarre little world?

>>5184113
Well, from the way >>5183236 described the place as being so huge that opposite strips appear as celestial bodies when seen from afar, I figured it'd be a pretty fuckhuge place.

Either that, or it IS its own self-contained universe, just a very, very small one.

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bumpan

These threads always make me laugh when they reveal just how bad /tg/ is at being creative.

God's greatest servant, one that sometimes interferes with the works of mortals, is a Giant Needle. God is also portrayed as an old woman.

2 words

Drakengard One

Resources are limited in the world. Eventually the world will die out from lack of them.

Think Starcraft late game when everyone runs out of minerals and attacking units and neither side can win.

>>5186954
...so people would lead raids on other strips they come into contact with to steal their resources for their own strip or, perhaps, to take over that strip completely, leaving their old one behind.

I'll blatantly steal an idea from a freeware game and add it to the pool here.

On each strip, people have no choice but to periodically migrate. As time passes, mist falls on one end of the strip and another end slowly emerges from the same mist. No one returns after wandering into the mist. What lurks in the mist - nobody knows.

The Cosmic Universe isn't a collection of objects floating in the vacuum of space, but rather the presence of limitless water.

Planets remain as solid bodies floating in this cosmic sea, with gaseous planets existing as amorphous orbs of gases. Atmospheres for planets do exist and allow for the presence of life like we know it on earth, while life does exist from microscopic limitless swarms of plankton like entities floating about to massive, planet sized krakens. The Sun is replaced with planetary bodies which burn with an intensity that allows it to pierce water deeper than it does on earth. Closer to the sun and 'space' is very much like the surface of the Carribean and the further and further away you go it gets darker to the point of complete pitch black.

For some reason I like the idea of this setting being 18th-19th century, with fully encased submersibles replacing battleships and the whole theme of colonialism and expanding powers being present with planets replacing continents or islands.

I fail at science so I don't know shit.