tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post4086005599386921801..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: Rooftop Running Game Ideas chris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-15498683160451264542015-11-14T10:07:39.503-05:002015-11-14T10:07:39.503-05:00Places on stilts do make roof travel a good idea.
...Places on stilts do make roof travel a good idea.<br /><br />I think of SE Asia... Small places like that, mostly single-story, are where I've been, but Bankok was ans somewhat is a city of canals. And Ayutthaya before that... Not sure about, say, Ankor...<br /><br />Tenochtitlan!<br /><br />Places in, like, Holland where the frozen canals become ice roads!<br /><br />The Hobbit had an example in Laketown, yeah?Lonesparkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278753827545905559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-17443749091109296712015-11-13T19:24:40.845-05:002015-11-13T19:24:40.845-05:00It struck me, reading the "Assholes" sec...It struck me, reading the "Assholes" section, that another option is "not a human city". If you're roof-running in the alien grasshopperoid city, obviously the jumps are going to be wider than humans can normally handle....Dw3t-Hthrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-53533121253486465552015-11-13T18:32:08.339-05:002015-11-13T18:32:08.339-05:00Not exactly rooftops, but it did come to mind as I...Not exactly rooftops, but it did come to mind as I read through your list: the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk has its society living in trees because what lives on the ground is too dangerous for Wookiees to want to tangle with. (Not sure what that is, but I'm very, very sure <i>I</i> wouldn't want to tangle with it, either.)<br /><br />But that could apply to other sci-fi/fantasy type worlds. Hell, you could have floating cities or cities on stilts and up that by going to the rooftop because the nasty things on the ground are starting to get at the lower levels.<br /><br />Again, borrowing off other fiction, did you ever see the Disney Afternoon show <i>Tale Spin</i>? Something like Kit's cloud surfing widget or a pocket hang glider could make for a fictionally plausible way to traverse spaces too far to plausibly jump.depizannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-700389538949488532015-11-13T12:55:39.073-05:002015-11-13T12:55:39.073-05:00Why are there still people here, in #4 [...]?
It&...<i>Why are there still people here, in #4 [...]?</i><br /><br />It's home, no one else was living there so it was free housing, the better off areas are under despotic rule, the powers that be simply abandoned everyone in the city in question ... take your pick.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-36428970420362271952015-11-13T12:41:58.562-05:002015-11-13T12:41:58.562-05:00Generally when cities get flooded they get evacuat...Generally when cities get flooded they get evacuated. Why are there still people here, in #4, who haven't moved to Denver or wherever?<br /><br />Variant of #7/#8 - a large building or collation of buildings, as it might be a mall - perhaps with the original streets roofed over to keep the rain off the shoppers?Firedrakenoreply@blogger.com