On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 12:24:03PM -0500, Richard Aiken wrote:
> So you must have set up a fake starfield like I did? Otherwise the
> total lack of visible stars would have been the first clue . . .

It doesn't need to be fake. Light from a nearby star doing a dozen
circuits around the pocket universe will most likely appear to be
coming from a distant star, and a pretty dim one at that.

If the inner surface of the warped-space boundary functions as a simple mirror reflection, after a while wouldn't you get a more or less even glow rather than pinpoint sources?

While I can't recall if it was part of the CT or the Mongoose version, there was something about if the PCs attempt to leave the pocket universe when they hit the boundary they will find themselves headed inward again from the exactly opposite point. If that's a valid memory, it seems the boundary is set up to manipulate/redirect incoming inputs in at least some form.

One thing which occurs to me is that - in an effort to control conditional variables versus naturally evolved races - Grandfather may not have wanted to give his experimental civilizations non-standard skies.

Richard Aiken

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