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Floating Discs

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A general visualization

Imagine yourself sitting cross-legged on a soft, grey floating disc. Your magical disc is able to hover a few feet above the ground, but no more than that. You are in the middle of a grassy field on warm summer day.

You sit quickly for a few moments, enjoying the slight up and down bobbing of your disc and looking around. Off in the distance, you can just make out a small town with beautifully kept historical buildings nestled at the base of a mountain. There seems to be some sort of festival going on. You decide to visit.

As soon as you set your intention, your magical disc begins to drift forward, slowly at first, but then with increasing speed. You are making excellent time, but not going so fast that you feel uncomfortable. This is far quicker than walking.

There is a small forest in front of you. Your magical disc whisks in, moving deftly around trees, over boulders, and under branches. You are happy with your progress and confident that you will reach the town soon as the disc seems to always find the most efficient path through the woods.

The clouds part briefly allowing beams of sunlight through, and you can just make out a large double rainbow through small spaces between the tree. You wish you had a clear view, but the clouds move to block the sun once more and the rainbows are gone.

After some time, you emerge from the forest and see that there is also a chasm between you and the town. A ways to the left, the chasm begins at the base of some large hills. A great rivers pours from the hills and into the chasm, creating a grand waterfall, which explains the rainbow you glimpsed earlier. The water thunders to the chasm floor hundreds of feet below. The chasm and its river stretch as far as you can see to your right, bending and twisting across the landscape like a ribbon.

You know that your disc, which can only hover a few feet above the ground, will not be able to simply fly across the chasm. However, directly in front of you, is the top of a path that works its way gradually down the side of the chasm wall, across the floor, over the river, and then back and forth up the far wall. It will take some time to reach the top of the far wall, but it appears to be the best option.

You expect your disc to make for the path, so you are surprised when instead of moving straight ahead it angles off to the right and stops at the edge of the chasm a few dozen feet away from the top of the path.

Several moments pass by and your magical disc continues to bob up and down in place. You reaffirm your intention to go to the town. No movement. You try shifting you weight forward. No movement. A quick search reveals that there are no buttons or any other means of control. Still no movement.

You begin to feel frustrated as more and more time passes. You imagine all the things you are missing at the festival as your floating disc continues to just sit and do nothing so close to the obvious path forward.

Just as you start to consider abandoning your disc and walking down the path, there is a break in the clouds and sunlight floods across the land. The large double rainbow that you only had a partial view of earlier reappears. You have an obstructed view from right where you are, and you forget your impatience for a moment as you look up.

Eventually, the clouds come back and the rainbow disappears. Your disc starts to move again, travelling a few feet back from the edge of the chasm even further away from the path. You start to feel frustrated again, but then you remember that if you had started down the path when you wanted too, you wouldn’t have had the perfect view of the rainbow. Maybe your magical disc is even more magical than you thought. You resolve to be a bit more patient and settle in to wait.

After only a minute your floating disc slows and then veers straight towards the edge of the cliff. You have just enough for a brief moment of alarm before you and your disc go over the cliff.

You don’t drop far, however. You peek over the edge of your disc. A little ways down from the top of the chasm wall, previously just out of your view, is another floating disc. This one is much larger and able to fly. Your little disc centres itself in the middle of the other disc as the bigger one flies straight across the gulf, rising to the same height as the far wall in order for you little disc to glide off on to the other side.

Your disc pauses and you turn and look back. The other discs flies back across the chasm and into a small opening in the cliff face. It would have been impossible for you to see it from the path down the wall or even if you had been standing at the edge of the cliff directly above it. Looking further down the chasm, you see see more of the large discs, each in their own little caves, waiting to carry small discs across. Thanks to the other disc, your trip to the other side of the chasm took only seconds.

You face forward once again and give your disc a little pat. It jiggles back and forth in acknowledgement, and then resumes its journey to the town. You can now hear the sounds of music, and you are filled with anticipation and appreciation.

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