DORFS DONT CARE ABOUT STUPID FOG!

Next you'll be telling me there's a huge equatorial stream that drives global trade, and people ride inside hardened submarines that harness the particular currents that will take them to their destination a-la that scene in Finding Nemo and that's pretty awesome.

I like this idea a whole lot. I think it could be a very interesting setting all in all

miasma world sounds like Dark Aether from Metroid Prime 2

>>7357110
then let's take it further since OP did say
>I present to you a world for your consumption

>>7357149
soooo, we're nids?

>>7357171
in a metaphorical sense

Next you'll be telling me the bottom is snow-covered, and the civilization on the top will be destroyed by its own hubris regarding the Mammon Machine.

>>7357007
So basically the ocean is now fog?

Not that I'm trying to oversimplify; I think it's a neat idea.

>>7357230
THATS NOT SNOW! THATS DEATH MOLD! AAAAAAAAAAAHH!

Floating islands always remind me of the Death Gate Cycle.

>>7357260
well water would probably pool up in the lower lands

would probably end up in Mangrove Swamps of Doom (tm) and be the consistancy of jello

if anybody has read 'einstein's dreams' there is a chapter in which he describes a world in which scientists discovered that time move almost indiscernibly slower, the higher from the center of the planet you got, and so heigh became a status symbol, the book goes into greater detail, however, you could use the class difference in accordance to height concept here

Septerra Core

>>7357284
forgive my miserable spelling. so out of it.

Skies of Arcadia?

>>7357329
air ships would be a must for any island that doesn't have its own floating river

>>7357329
There is not a better game in this world nor the next.

Wait wait let me guess... You play as a a dukes son named luke Fon Fabre who is in line to become king. With a mysterious past covered in amnesia and a stupid named servant named Guy right?

Sounds like netstorm to me

Or Plastic Little.

Am I too obscure?

>>7357369
agreed though the "islands" are more or less plateaus that rise above the miasma

though if water can float, who says land can't

>>7357266
>>7357329
>>7357369
>Death Gate cycle
>Skies of Arcadia
>Netstorm
This sounds like the most epic fucking thing ever.

without sunlight how is there life? magic?

>>7357329
Seconded.

>>7357424
maybe the miasma provides some sort of sustenance to the stuff that lives within it

though from the sound of it, it doesn't mix to well with things that don't live in it

>>7357424
When the sun is gone, those that wish to survive turn to other means. Darker means.

>>7357424
Tits. They have turned to tits to survive.

This makes me want to know if there is a bottom, or just more layers below...

>>7357424
Vents!
Just like deep ocean and shit

>>7357525
I'm just going to read that as there are tentacle monsters living the lower world

>>7357517
>>7357525
Using these two, we can safely conclude that the energy source below the miasma is black tits.

>>7357533
maybe the layers are really all just the same layer, and you only think that they are different layers?

>>7357487 it doesn't mix to well with things that don't live in it

Unconscious in 30 seconds.

Dead in four minutes.

so why are humans here? assuming that we are here.

>>7357567
Apparently for the tits.

>>7357533
its time to call some dorfs and ask them to dig

>>7357551
I think people should still be able to traverse the lower world, it's just dangerous as fuck. Make it like a magic radiation poisoning or something.

>>7357567
Because we expand, and goddamnit that hell hole has something we want and we will damn ourselves, our brethren, and anything in our way to get at it.

>>7357567
it was the elves' fault

>>7357577
colonies of misogynists?

>>7357551
If you're some kind of pussy, maybe.

>>7357567
Death Gate explanation: Because we weren't here initially. Something much stronger than us brought us here.

Ar Tonelico

>>7357551
its relatively harmless, but it gives you bad thoughts

>>7357609

artwork is Nemo so yeah

>>7357607
IT WAS THOSE GODDAMN ELVES

THEY BROUGHT ABOUT THE MAGIPOCALPYSE AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED!

>>7357611
sir, if you are looking for the warp its the next dimension over

>>7357599
To survive down there, humans must consume some kind of life-sustaining potion almost constantly.

>>7357595
Nah. But in a society powered by Tits, those with tits have the power. Until mankind discovered....

THE CAVE OF TITS!

>>7357579
years of societal forming have crafted the lower levels and the lower people into a forbidden class, no-one from the upper levels dares to stray downwards

>>7357618
Incidentally, the elves got the same treatment as the humans in Death Gate. That works well enough here though.

>>7357623
Humanity: Worse conditions just means we have to survive on more piss and more vinegar

>>7357629
tits is just slang for an orgone vent you fool

>>7357637
ARE YOU SAYING HUMANS AND ELVES ARE EQUAL?

ELVES ARE CLEARLY THE CAUSE OF THIS AND ARE FIT FOR NOTHING MORE THAN TO BE SLAVES!

>>7357687
off to the dark tit mines with them!

FUCKING ELVES AND THEIR SUNWELLS

Final Fantasy + Baten Kaitos.

>>7357713
and that means we need crazy whale critters which can swim in the miasma like it was water

I'm not sure why but it sounds appropriate

>>7357725
i feel like jellyfish and squid would vibe better with this setting

>>7357744
All of them.

But covered in feathers.

A feathered squid man, the most outlandish badass thing I've ever heard of.

>>7357645
To the contrary, tits is slang for tits!

You can hook power lines to them (though they get all saggy), or you can use the water that gushes forth to power hydroelectric dams!

>>7357744
yeah whales seems like they'd live in the larger of sky river

things in the miasma definately need tentacles

>>7357725
like Tales of Vesperia

>>7357760
>feathered squid
duuuuuude

we could modify some mayan culture and use some of their god concepts in the vein of quezecoatl(prob misspelled) the feathered serpent

>>7357787
there are totally going to be nomadic tribes of feather squid that roam the lower world

>>7357770
I have no words.

>>7357808
You will have to pardon him, it is a side effect of being caught in a blast of particular potent orgone from one of the tits.

is this planet spherical or does it defy physics?

>>7357822
I"m pretty sure that it's both

>>7357822
disregard the 'defy physics' part, it's a planet with feathered squid powered by tits, what am i thinking

>>7357838
HARVEST MORE TITS

>>7357822
if so, maybe the bottom layer is actually the top layer

>>7357851
massive tits lie at the core, around which the plethora of layers revolve in constant motion as the squid float lazily amongst the miasma

also, pigeons the size of continents who sing the song that gives birth to the universe

>>7357867
Nonsense good sir, that is just feather-squid mythology! I have it on good word that an expedition of dwarven engineers found a swamp of glassy plants-like growths in a pool of lava deep beneath the surface last month.

>>7357849
Sir, yes sir!

>>7357913
WHO ARE YOU TO DEFY THE DIVINE WIL OF THE MASSIVE MAMMARIES OF MAMMARIA?

>>7357918
We could definately harvest some "vital energy" out of those if you know what i mean

>>7357937
energy though heat produced via hand to genitalia friction

>>7357913
hmm... glass plants

needs LAVA MANTIS SHRIMP

>>7357926

>>7357926
Why good sir, it just happens that the feather-squid's for an orgone vent sounds like our word for female breats, but I assure you it does not mean the same thing!

World of Miasma... surreal fantasy apocalpyse?

>>7358019
With tits!

>>7358110
Black ones!

>>7358122
Brown ones!

>>7358176
Some as big as your head!

>>7358187
Give them a twist!

>>7358192
A flick of the wrist!

>>7358197
That's what the showman said.

I must say, this thread has taken a turn for the crass.

And I can't get the idea of tits being some kind of sessile swamp life out of my head, producing nutritious milk for the animals that drag decaying vegatation to their base.

>>7358210
Large, swamp dwelling tits?

I like it!

>>7358326
I do too. Imagine them peeking out of the water at the bank, alone or in clusters, as all manner of small creatures bring them food for drink.

Floating in midair island world ideas.

Wrap around. If you go far enough.. you come out the other side. Fall far enough and you wrap around to the top of the world and fall back toward where you came from. GO far enough left.. you come out on the right.

And yes, you could potentially fall forever.

>>7358392 And yes, you could potentially fall forever.

In fact, there are monks devoted to doing just this.

>>7358404
Entire monestaries built to be self sustaining, launched off into the void. Perhaps even co-ordinated so that you can glide between two or more as they fall...

>>7358472
Aww, cenobites? I was thinking more of hermits who study meditation techniques that will allow them to survive longer and longer without food, until finally they feel ready to take the plunge. As they pass by in their years-long “orbit”, disciples gather to the edge of the continent, hoping that some piece of wisdom will be passed on as he goes hurtling by.

Yeah, but monasteries are cool too.

>>7358472
holy shit that sounds awesome

>>7358472
>>7358500
There could be whole communities built on this principle. Think of it: if you all fall at similar velocities, you're motionless relative to one another (obviously this requires streamlining large objects to match the speed of a falling person), and can glide between places by banking into the wind.

>>7358346
Used since ancient times as easily-transported food when traveling.

>>7358524
Make the buildings all ball shaped..?

With a very large ribbon of cloth at the top to create drag to pull the top of the building upward.

From there you just make sure their terminal velocity is in the sweet spot for humans to be able to either slow down(by spreading the body out against the win) or speed('standing' or diving) up enough to get from one to the other.

>>7358571
Perhaps..... Tit shaped?

>>7358571

The monks confine themselves to the monastery until they have achieved mastery over the four winds, and can slow themselves to a gentle stop on the nearest plateau. From there, they travel the world, using their powers to aid those who need them and teaching to others the ways of the Free Fallen.

But there was one... one who was not content with simply controlling his fall. He sought to fly upward, against the flow of All That Is, to become more than he was made to be...