Archie Explores

Somewhere out There

  

So, originally, the idea of having a PAZ out at sea, where you can’t see any land at all, was a cool challenge. Well, I didn’t hear exactly when this happened, but probably on some recent update, and so now those days of the rare “habitable sea” areas have dramatically changed. Let me explain…

Something I recently read in the There Official Forums, triggered the idea to check this out. 

 

 A while back,

 

 - I did a story called the “Habitable Highway”, about a patch of ocean surface in the Comet Sea where you drop a PAZ, and where you could be so far from land, that land could not be seen. Now it seems, that a rather (extremely) large band of “habitable area” is now available for one to plunk down a PAZ (Portazone). We are talking – HUGE – seriously!

 

So the other day, I began checking to see how far off of the lines of the old “Habitable Highway” I could go. I applied “Trend Sec” – a setting on the Bedican Compass, instead of punching it up with commands like we did back in the day. [“Trend Sec” is used by the virtual-reality designers to be able to see various zones in color codes.]

 

 Well, I expected to see the deep plum colored water sectors as in the past, but this time I got this virtually “eternal green” of flat, endless, open sea where, it is apparently “okay” to drop a paz. So I did. I got pics.

 

I teleported to a bookmark out in the old “habitable” zone near Comet Island, which, thanks to the There Research Society (Skylander), I had saved. So now, I took a long cruise toward New Kansas. I was still in the “green zone”. I got about halfway to New Kansas and plunked down my PAZ (I call the “Contemplation Grill”). STILL in the “green zone!

 

Sure enough, if it was “green sea” then apparently it’s good to go.

 

I got to thinking.

 

I had some old bookmarks from long ago, when I had driven a Monster TUV around the globe. I teleported out there and found I wasn’t exactly on the “green band” Using high zoom and the There cam to zoom out for the view, while still in Trend Sec mode, I could see the green band as it lay on the planet.

 

Wow! It’s really gigantic! I’m serious!

I was “close” but needed to drive about a half hour to the south. From the high zoom camera (from near space) it looks close, but There is very similar to the earth in size, so it takes a while to navigate on this scale. A monster TUV gives the best speed and stability while driving over our “hard water”.

I figure you could drop a PAZ almost a quarter of the way around the globe of There, as long as you stay on the green band. So I had to at least test it. Although I haven’t gotten very far out there yet, I would think if it’s green, like I said, it ought to be “habitable”. 

From my old bookmark, I navigated my way back onto the green sea. This was significantly further from the main islands, but in scale, not very deep into the ‘green band’. So far for me however, this was the furthest I had ever dropped a PAZ from the Tiki Chain (not counting Samsyn’s Frosty Island).

 

Perhaps someday soon, an “edge of the world” community will form somewhere, way, way out there.

 

Way out, There.

 

Stop and say hello if you happen to see me.

Archie,  (March, 2007)