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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6482135" data-attributes="member: 2067">This post raises some interesting possibilities in my mind.First, that to truesight or to those seeing through the illusions this city is a plain, bland, slum full of naked people. If no one smells the waste, if eveyone can clothe themselves in richness, if every 10' by 10' room can be an expansive and infinite castle, the actual physical structure of the city would simply be blandly and barely functional. A hearty gruel would be the best-selling food item because it's functionally healthy and it can literally be anything you want it to be. There's really no difference between a plain sackcloth and rich robes of velvet. This implies to me an "underclass" who need to disbelieve the illusions in order to keep the town functional. SOMEONE has got to be able to smell the waste, if only so that the townsfolk don't accidentally eat a fine feast of never-before-existing rarities only to find out later that they glamoured the wrong pile of slop. Those people who cannot be deceived, who investigate the illusion, who "look too closely" are nay-sayers and untouchables who can't participate as fully in the grand illusion, if only because the entire town can't afford to. The second is that the city could be weirdly egalitarian. If any random bum with a passing aptitude for figments can look like the King of Town, our usual signs of social distinction get tossed out on their ear. You can't actually tell how much gold someone is worth or what their lineage is by looking at them. Those with a greater illusion talent or some natural creativity would probably be able to stand out....but in a place of colors and rainbows and sensory overload, what stands out the most is probably the quiet, calm, and muted -- meaning the most creative members of society are those who are the least glamoured........which, come to think, might invert the social structure I presented in the paragraph before. Maybe those who "see reality" are actually the valued nobles, and everyone really wants to be a slop-slosher and a sack-cutter, and the town janitor is the highest office? ...is authenticity a valued resource in a town built upon a foundation of lies, and if so...could one lie about it?<img src="http://i.imgur.com/UmpOi.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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