Spawning

[SekoETC]

It would make sense if newspawns came from the space between towns and roads. There's loads of land there and if neighboring locations often have the same resources, it would make sense to assume that those resources are also found along the way, just not on the road. So the land between roads could support life. You just can't see people coming from there, because the area doesn't lead to anything and is not a road.

[Gran]

Well, I just thought that regular populations descend from outcast societies from within the lands they inhabit. Pretty much what Seko said, though I prefered to keep it and further theo-philosophical details for later in-game use. I just think that this would be a rather more interesting discussion in a greener place.

[catpurr]

Can I please return to this limbo?

[FreerangeBean]

A few times my characters have spoke of spawneries, kind of a mix-up of nurseries and "Star Wars"-esque Cloning Labs. Where people are taught to read, write, not smear their own faeces into their hair .... you know, the usual.

Then they're pushed up through trapdoors by the Spawnomes who made and run the Spawneries.

Some spawneries are better than others, which is why wierdo's and eejits occaisonally get let loose instead of being fed to the Badgergods.

The Badgergods made the Spawnomes to make the spawneries, and the Spacejohns made the Badgergods as an eco-friendly alternative to spaceships, but failed to plan for the inability of badgers to retain air-pressure in a vacuum. That, and the irrascible and stubborn natures of badgers, airborne or otherwise.

That last chapter isn't key to the argument, so I'd be prepared to let it drop.

[Dudel]

That was very.... interesting.

[Snake_byte]

A few times my characters have spoke of spawneries... Jibberish

You lost me at Spawneries...

I want some of what you're on!

[FreerangeBean]

Spawneries, like a school underground where Cantrians are taught language, social norms, basic resource properties and usage, etc. Then they "graduate" and are maybe sent up a tunnel and climb out from behind a bush whence they are first noticed.

Not talking or thinking about their life in a spawnery is part of the conditioning.

[Dudel]

That was very.... interesting.

[FiziKx]

I've always just literally used the word 'spawn': unsure of where my charries or others' charries were before then, meaning, you just appear one day out of nothing. Opens up some interesting religious ideas that way, it seems.

[Snake_byte]

Opens up some interesting religious ideas that way, it seems.

You mean, creationism?

[FiziKx]

Kinda.

[Dudel]

Newspawns form when random clusters of atoms combine together in anomaly's known as "Errors". When enough Errors happen there is a burst of newspawns all over the Cantr world. O.o

[Snake_byte]