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Message: <blockquote data-quote="michaeljpastor" data-source="post: 9080023" data-attributes="member: 81243">Thank you.  I've been eyes deep in Amber lore lately, rereading all of the books (in some cases, for the first time), and lots of non-fiction about Amber, since they've been in development news.  So this Planescape release has gotten my Ambervision up.  I approach Planescape like Amber meets Willy Wonka, with all of the Outer Planes acting as 16 Poles that cast Shadows onto the Outlands, and the Outlands an ice cream soup of those flavors mixed with Factions as candy toppings.  The Outlands "substance" spins (simultaneously clockwise and counterclockwise), spiraling into the center (slower at the edges, faster at the center), until it becomes a font of pure flavor and sugar at the Spire, shooting into the Netherverse, only to be collected again by the pull of the Poles of the Outer Planes.  Random chunks of the Elemental planes are found in the Outlands (bananas, fruit), and demiplanes like the Feywild act as toppings like whipped cream and fudge.  If you ever ordered the San Diego Zoo at Farrell's (30 scoops of ice cream, every topping under the sun, and little plastic animals throughout), then you understand my mind's eye view of the Outlands.I've considered making a Willy Wonka inspired character like the Lady of Pain, but mixed with a Where's Waldo? feel, a Trickster archetype that takes on the attributes of whatever area of the Outlands he's in (except when he's not).  And if I go that far, might as well introduce the Oompa Loompas. ;-)</blockquote>

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