Let's play an obscure Choose Your Own Adventure. This one is Underground Kingdom by Edward Packer! I'll give y'all adequate time for all people playing to vote/decide on the decision to make, then I'll advance the story accordingly.
So I don't read ahead. I only read after I've posted what your decision was. I've done plenty of these to know when I think y'all are fucked no matter what you do, but this pleasantly surprised me.
It's "sold her on..." Back in the day when women were chattel, you would sell them on the market price. But eventually they dropped the "market price" because that was always understood. So you might say to your drinking mate about your wife/chattel, "Being married to her is a chore, so I guess I'll just sold her on."
You didn't play the others, which were also written by Packer (the original author). These are all before he "perfected" the formula. The last series we did were even weirder because you couldn't die- it was a weird "open world" setting where you eventually got to the end.
Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:37 am
I have so many questions about the physics of this world. Wouldn't the gravity on the earth's surface be the same as the gravity on the inner shell?
This is going to sound very counterintuitive, but given the configuration (hollow shell, with the remaining mass of the interior compressed into the "black hole" at the center), gravity here would be exactly the same as it would be in this exact spot if the planet was NOT hollow. That is, still considerable, and pulling us towards the center of the earth. At a wild guess, I'd say we'd be experiencing something like half a G.
Any time the solution is "banjo rifle", I'm in 100%.
But it would be half a G pulling us towards the black hole, not half a G pulling us towards the shell. But this is like complaining about the physics and plot holes in the old D&D cartoon, or ThunderCats. So let's just go with it.
Correct. Again, at least as I understand it. Because the shell above all around us effectively cancels itself out no matter where we are inside the shell, therefore, the black hole is the only thing acting on us.
And yes... face them.
Any time the solution is "banjo rifle", I'm in 100%.
I say we tell him to go f himself. This "if you're not with us, then you're against us" BS isn't something I want to cower to. Sure, the Arton are making war boats, but the Raka are making bombs, so it sounds like both sides are trying to provoke the other, and I want time to figure out if I'm supporting the Axis or the Allies. So I say, do you worst, I will not take part in your war.
What say you, Mike? You're the other aspect of this split personality.