All Night Laundry - In which you just have to press down hard - 2019 12 19

UPDATE - 1400 - In which it's not right

UPDATE - 1401 - In which it had been unavoidable really

Embrace the inevitability.

UPDATE - 1402 - In which she just tried it once

UPDATE - 1403 - In which she has to

The Botfly gives you a wrong version of what you want.

Gregor wanted his dog, and he got a dog. But just look at how it turned out! Is he even aware of how messed-up it is?

Are you going to be able to spot whatever's wrong with your wish?

UPDATE - 1404 - In which time is getting a little concerned about all this

I know the answer is don't think about it too hard but I just had the thought, why can they walk around in the Moment? There shouldn't be enough mass still in the bubble to create appreciable gravity.

If you have a U-shaped object, and hold one of the arms and stick the bend into the nothing, does the other arm fall or does it act like it is still attached?

If you have a U-shaped object, and hold one of the arms and stick the bend into the nothing, does the other arm fall or does it act like it is still attached?

That is a very good question.

If you have a U-shaped object, and hold one of the arms and stick the bend into the nothing, does the other arm fall or does it act like it is still attached?

I assume it would fall. Given that when something is pulled out of the nothing, the part stuck into it does not reappear, in such a situation the connecting part of the object would cease to exist and split the object into two parts.

And yet gravity appears to work based on the matter that's no longer present in the moment. As though the physics of that pocket universe were also taken at a snapshot in time, as though there was not enough time passed for gravity to "stop working."

I wouldn't be too surprised if once the bend of the u-shaped object were erased the unheld side continued to be suspended in air until someone interacted with it. Of course "interacting" might be equal to observing so if someone were paying attention it might just immediately fall.

Kinda like a glitch in a computer, a variable remains the same despite the thing it depended on no longer existing, until that value is accessed again. Then it recalculates the value and it comes up undefined. Though if such a thing were to occur I'd think it would generate a little paradox. That seems to be how reality in All-Night-Laundry handles impossible events.

In that sense if the U ended up partially extended into the Nothing while no one was observing it the unsupported piece remaining might not fall until the next time someone observed the experiment. That seems suitably spooky.

But then again, Pyotir the ghost dog in Bina's dreams appears in physical form inside the Moment so ascribing any actual kind of real world physics to the place is probably an exercise in madness. It may just be a lucid dream world that only exists and operates the way it does because people expect it too, with the only caveat that it is shrinking over "time."

I was going to justify it by saying gravity is not the same force that holds solid objects together, but it occurred to me that gravity is inconsistant too: If gravity just copies the gravitational force of the real world, then everything within the moment would drop out the bottom. And then there's the issue of how they're getting power and running watter. It is starting to look more an more like your last parograph is right...

UPDATE - 1405 - In which Emmie is bad at charades

What is it's kryptonite?

:0!!! Im so glad to see thos adventure here!!! I was so sad to forget what this adventure was called and wrote on the search engine like "Midnight Laundry" and "Laundry at Midnight" and stuff like that!! I remember reading this waaayyy back when the MSPForum was still a live and wow. The creepiness and wow. I really love the horror aspect and recommend this to my bro. I should really stop reading this at night though, but man, was this soo good! Can't wait to catch up!!

UPDATE - 1406 - In which she's almost certainly not a for-real god

UPDATE - 1407 - In which she wrote a book about it

Hi TripTripleTimes! I'm glad you found us too! So much was lost with the MSPA forums. :(

Too bad you don't have a giant can of bug spray from space.

UPDATE - 1408 - In which she's actually done it a lot

UPDATE - 1409 - In which Bina doesn't care

It is proper for humans to prioritize human concerns. Show me a species that doesn't look out for itself first.

UPDATE - 1410 - In which they're beautiful and smart

I'd accept my fate but think some extremely uncharitable thoughts about the person who put us in the box in the first place

We're not naked in a box though. We have tools we can use to subdue the "tiger" in a non-lethal way, maybe return it to its natural habitat.

Ah, what am I saying, just kill the damn thing.