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🐨 ⇢ Items in the innerworld ? can they be retrieved , do they have to be bought , do they have to be stolen , or can they pulled out of thin air , forged , or manifested ? etc

Depends on which part of the innerworld you're in. There are a few main areas, including the main Dreamglass, where items can be pulled out of thin air. Some members have more difficulty in the main innerworld, but it's easiest there. In other areas, items can't be so easily manifested, but so long as the area is being accessed in a capacity as part of headspace, it's usually possible to find objects of comfort at minimum.

Someone in back also briefly mentioned that we have a sentient sub-headspace in a Lor fictive that is able to synthesize food with zero limitation.

🐦 ⇢ Favourite places in the innerworld ? are there really beautiful terrains in the iw that are just jaw dropping , and are there such things as 'tourist attractions’ in the iw ? are there any iconic , famous , or otherwise well-known spots in the iw , are there specific restaurants , shops , malls , adjacents that are frequently talked about in the iw , how do they operate ? etc

There are a lot of weird places in the innerworld that count as famous. Hunter has his own place in the innerworld that's literally an endless warehouse, for example.

The most infamous non DG/oc location in headspace would probably be Thronespace, though, which is literally a dome full of darkness and glowing eyes/wings. It sometimes has a giant wooden throne, sometimes it has a giant princess bed.

In terms of places that are just beautiful (or favorite locales), though, it depends on who you're asking.

College Squad's beaches (which have a proper name I am redacting for their privacy) are particularly gorgeous, in my opinion. That spot of the innerworld is an island archipelago in the eye of an ever-whirling hurricane. On the rare occasions you can see the sun, it's got a beautiful sunrise and sunset. Still, its beaches are a soft, silky pink, and Ellia has some favorite spots on that island that she often reminisces about, considering it was her lifetime home.

There's also one location in headspace I just think is extremely funny, and that's a college dorm room that, as far as we can tell, has a bricked over door. The only way in or out is to wake up in or outside of it.

I think my favorite spot has to be the featureless meadow that connects most of our innerworlds, though. It's not pretty the same way the beach is, but it's got a serene, comforting atmosphere. Anytime I'm fronting there, it's a lot calmer than when I'm stuck, say, in Dorm Jail lmao. The grasses are soft like fur, and while there are areas short enough to lay down in them, you can see the breeze tugging the long tufts as far as the horizon. It's always sunset there, and the sky is clear enough to see the glittering stardust as blue fades to rainbow hues.

This all said, there is a restaurant I would love to find in headspace if it's possible to bring it here, considering I have fond memories of it. The point at which a fixture becomes part of headspace and not just innerworld set dressing is difficult to pin down, though.

🦅 ⇢ Communication in the innerworld ? how do sysmates communicate , is the innerworld relatively small or relatively big that effect the way the system communicates ? are there messaging apps , mail services or animal .. senders ? or is it easier to meet in certain places , or are there meetings in order to effectively talk to the system , are there video chatting platforms too ? etc

Our headspace is functionally infinite in size, even just counting the main DG area. It makes it Hell to communicate when there isn't anyone administrating communication. Even then, sometimes that shit just doesn't work.

DG administrators have innerworld magic, and that's the only real way they can manage communication between separate parts of the system that isn't administered through the presence of front (ex: we retain some information between hard switches, but only because it's close to front).

Considering the structure, we also don't regularly host meetings anymore because it's been over two years since we thought we had few enough members to do regular roll calls. We're a polyfragmented mess lmao, and there are areas of headspace most of us active members know we can't even begin to access right now.

This is all also ignoring the fact that the innerworld that is entirely mimetic of our original fiction is, uh. Active enough to regularly spit out new details that come with someone glaring at us inside the DG. Honestly we should just cave and call it a paracosm at this point but we would have to do more research on that term to feel comfortable with it lol.

Suffice to say, we rely heavily on communication through external means because of all this.

🦉 ⇢ NPCs ? are there any NPCs in the system , how are NPCs created / spawned / adjacents , is there a specific job for that or maybe a role for NPCs ? are NPCs just there as a default or do they have to be 'coded’ ? are they only humanoid NPCs or are there NPCs that are beasts , creatures , animals ? etc

Oh yeah, we're a very NPC heavy system to be honest. If we're interacting with media or writing our own original fiction, then those tend to be "blueprints" for NPCs. We have a mixture of different NPC definitions in the system, all of which we consider part of the system (even if some of them do not or cannot front) for sake of simplicity.

A lot of our fragments also function like NPCs. Ones that are sourced from our original fiction (which is essentially just our innerworld, lbrh) have a higher degree of autonomy than most other NPCs in the system (fictive NPCs very rarely end up fronting unless there is incentive pressuring them to).

NPCs form the same way as any other headmate in our system, and exist with the same variation of shapes. I'm pretty sure we have at least one or two Sonic the Hedgehog fictive NPCs, for example, while there are also some demon/elf/other humanoid headmates.

Since the difference between fragment and NPC for us is so difficult to pin down, we mostly just track fragments, to be honest.

thinking about this because for me “demon” is about as mundane as pointing out a squirrel in a tree. like, that’s just what i am, a funky lil creature that is referred to as a demon. it’s not much deeper in meaning than that, and the depth mostly comes from my exomemories. even then it’s not that important, though; it doesn’t affect my day to day experiences more than sometimes being a bit disoriented. i notice it and move on. i acknowledge how my sense of self lays divorced from our body’s physical existence, and that’s about it.

but then you get bitches like heit in our system whose whole identity revolves around what it psychospiritually means to be a demon, how that can affect your life philosophy, and it’s all alongside his exomemories too. his experiences with being a demon vs my experiences being a demon are thus very different, even if we’re using the same word to describe our experiences.

idk if this has a point, just kind of rotating some thoughts in the brain while i’ve got front like i’m making dinner and all i have are those really annoying bowls you gotta take out every two minutes to wangjangle.

okay well maybe it has a point, actually, because i think that range of difference in our system kind of helps highlight to us that our experiences are individual, and that inevitably labels will fail to capture that complexity even if they can help us gather together in community spaces. not in a “labels are completely useless” kind of way, mind you, but certainly in a “labels are words like any other that come with some level of individual connotation/interpretation.” like not every bird in the sky is a pigeon, but they’re all birds (and not even every bird is in the sky).

idk, just some brain food for thought this fine timezone.