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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7614718" data-attributes="member: 12377"><p>No. The world does not exist. Period.</p><p></p><p>Seriously, and I hate to break it to you this way, but... I just made it all up! It's not real! All those times I told you, "You don't <em>detect</em> any traps..." it's because there were no traps, there was no chest/door/hallway/whatever... In fact, and you may want to sit down for this next part, but: you don't exist either. You are just a character in an RPG, a figment of someone's imagination. "Misturdium Pisces, sea elf sage mastermind rogue" is just a figment of someone's imagination. "Sea elf" isn't even really a thing, it's just a regular elf painted blue and wearing a seaweed bikini.</p><p></p><p>Remember that time you dodged the acidic breath weapon of Scorulax the Murky? Yeah, that only happened because the person "playing" you is a dirty rotten metagamer who used something called "Inspiration" to manipulate probabilities on your behalf. This player, your creator, who spun your whole life story out of the gossamer dream-stuff of pure imagination, is an out-of-shape 31-year-old IT support specialist named Mike Gunderson. He's a good guy; maybe not the best role-player (which is why you are named "Misturdium Pisces") but I really appreciate how enthusiastically he gets into the game.</p><p></p><p>I can tell you're a little disturbed by all this, so let me imagine you up some "sea weed" and a posh underwater palace filed with gold, jewels, and attractive sea elf servants. There, doesn't that feel better? I hope so, because this next part is going to really blow your mind. You see, <em>Mike Gunderson</em> doesn't exist either. I made him up too! "You" are actually a person reading an internet forum, called ENWorld. Wait, what's an internet forum? It's this thing where people can waste a lot of time by reading and writing arguments about non-existent places and "why" they exist. It's also used to rank the most popular non-existent things, and rant and rail against the least popular (don't tell the gnome paladin, but some powerful people really have it in for him). Also, once in a while we get to play a fun game where the forum just says "503 Gateway Error" and we have to keep refreshing until it fixes itself.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I hope that clears everything up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7614718, member: 12377"] No. The world does not exist. Period. Seriously, and I hate to break it to you this way, but... I just made it all up! It's not real! All those times I told you, "You don't [I]detect[/I] any traps..." it's because there were no traps, there was no chest/door/hallway/whatever... In fact, and you may want to sit down for this next part, but: you don't exist either. You are just a character in an RPG, a figment of someone's imagination. "Misturdium Pisces, sea elf sage mastermind rogue" is just a figment of someone's imagination. "Sea elf" isn't even really a thing, it's just a regular elf painted blue and wearing a seaweed bikini. Remember that time you dodged the acidic breath weapon of Scorulax the Murky? Yeah, that only happened because the person "playing" you is a dirty rotten metagamer who used something called "Inspiration" to manipulate probabilities on your behalf. This player, your creator, who spun your whole life story out of the gossamer dream-stuff of pure imagination, is an out-of-shape 31-year-old IT support specialist named Mike Gunderson. He's a good guy; maybe not the best role-player (which is why you are named "Misturdium Pisces") but I really appreciate how enthusiastically he gets into the game. I can tell you're a little disturbed by all this, so let me imagine you up some "sea weed" and a posh underwater palace filed with gold, jewels, and attractive sea elf servants. There, doesn't that feel better? I hope so, because this next part is going to really blow your mind. You see, [I]Mike Gunderson[/I] doesn't exist either. I made him up too! "You" are actually a person reading an internet forum, called ENWorld. Wait, what's an internet forum? It's this thing where people can waste a lot of time by reading and writing arguments about non-existent places and "why" they exist. It's also used to rank the most popular non-existent things, and rant and rail against the least popular (don't tell the gnome paladin, but some powerful people really have it in for him). Also, once in a while we get to play a fun game where the forum just says "503 Gateway Error" and we have to keep refreshing until it fixes itself. Anyway, I hope that clears everything up. [/QUOTE]
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