>> I love the idea that verses mark the farthest point, and that everything is written on the way out. No point in giving directions if you didn't pick good enough ones to make it out alive yourself.<<
Exactly.
The more time goes on, the more of the Grunge decays. Much of it broke down in the first year or so, although sunny areas clear faster than shaded or sheltered ones. The problem is that even broken-down Grunge is a mess of nasty chemicals. 0_o So it took time to wash away. Also there's the issue of unexploded ordnance, which can release fresh Grunge anywhere in a hit zone without warning.
By 10-15 years After, the ruined cities are ... not so much safe as less dangerous. Give it another 5 years or so and most areas will be almost safe.
>> ROUSes! *giggle* Yikes to that. <<
They're not quite that big, yet. But I've seen rats the size of rabbits or cats. Given an effectively limitless supply of food and sex partners, the damn things can grow rapidly. O_O Also there weren't many predators for the first several years After, just surviving cats and dogs.
>>The pun of "deer" and "hart" delighted me.<<
Yay! :D
>> I enjoyed getting to see more examples of Afta.<<
It's almost like a pidgin in terms of how it simplifies things, because education got so truncated. But you can see a few more refined features like the creation of the "-ey" suffix to mark people categories. You can ask for more during any relevant prompt call.
>> I love the idea that short messages and poetry have the lines between them blurred, that poetry is just something that bubbles up like that. I remember how satisfying simple rhymes were when I was a child, the satisfaction of fitting sounds together like that when language was new, so it makes sense that young scrounges would be drawn to that as well.<<
That's exactly where they got the inspiration, nursery rhymes -- because they're catchy and easy to remember. If the points of a path are written in rhyme, they're easier to remember than a path that isn't. So the current use of rhymes to mark the innermost point is likely to spread outward over time.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Love!!!
Date: 2022-01-11 05:45 am (UTC)Thank you!
>> I love the idea that verses mark the farthest point, and that everything is written on the way out. No point in giving directions if you didn't pick good enough ones to make it out alive yourself.<<
Exactly.
The more time goes on, the more of the Grunge decays. Much of it broke down in the first year or so, although sunny areas clear faster than shaded or sheltered ones. The problem is that even broken-down Grunge is a mess of nasty chemicals. 0_o So it took time to wash away. Also there's the issue of unexploded ordnance, which can release fresh Grunge anywhere in a hit zone without warning.
By 10-15 years After, the ruined cities are ... not so much safe as less dangerous. Give it another 5 years or so and most areas will be almost safe.
>> ROUSes! *giggle* Yikes to that. <<
They're not quite that big, yet. But I've seen rats the size of rabbits or cats. Given an effectively limitless supply of food and sex partners, the damn things can grow rapidly. O_O Also there weren't many predators for the first several years After, just surviving cats and dogs.
>>The pun of "deer" and "hart" delighted me.<<
Yay! :D
>> I enjoyed getting to see more examples of Afta.<<
It's almost like a pidgin in terms of how it simplifies things, because education got so truncated. But you can see a few more refined features like the creation of the "-ey" suffix to mark people categories. You can ask for more during any relevant prompt call.
>> I love the idea that short messages and poetry have the lines between them blurred, that poetry is just something that bubbles up like that. I remember how satisfying simple rhymes were when I was a child, the satisfaction of fitting sounds together like that when language was new, so it makes sense that young scrounges would be drawn to that as well.<<
That's exactly where they got the inspiration, nursery rhymes -- because they're catchy and easy to remember. If the points of a path are written in rhyme, they're easier to remember than a path that isn't. So the current use of rhymes to mark the innermost point is likely to spread outward over time.