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[vile_queen]

[The writing is elegant, script. There’s curly lines and flourishes.]Forgive me for asking what likely has been asked before, but as we are in a tree in a bowl, living on islands that float and within its branches, why are all the job opportunities so mundane? I mean no insult to those who are employed, but it is a wonder that none of thought out

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[books_and_toads]

[here you go, Mona Lisa, have scratchy but neat handwriting that may seem familiar.] I don't mind the floating islands myself, makes a change from any world I know. [there's a few squiggles and doodles before writing resumes.] Still, if you want something less mundane, you could try the Scavengers or Adventurers. I suppose it depends on what you prefer and what would suit you. [more doodles, this time of a sword, shield, and a helmet.]

But I'm being rude. I'm Book, I run the bookstore. Who might you be, miss?

[vile_queen]

[It does look familiar, but so have a few things, and she's getting confused by all of this.]

Scavengers or Adventurers. Perhaps. Is everything the Scavengers gather discarded?

I am Mona Lisa. Greetings, Book.

[books_and_toads]

Nice to meet you, Mona Lisa. Scavengers are responsible for finding things that could be useful in some way, and they work with Adventurers sometimes. I suppose it's a good job for those who like to work with their hands, or are simply very very curious.

[vile_queen]

It is nice to meet you too.

Curious. That is one word that could describe what I am. Let us say that perhaps another one would be ambitious. What jobs would that lead to?

[seeya_next_life]

I'll second the idea that Adventuring is anything but mundane a lot of the time. It ain't for the faint of heart, that's for sure.

[courtesy laugh from beyond the 4th wall.]

So you're familiar with trees in fishbowls? That's a rather specific set of life experience.

[vile_queen]

Tell me of your experiences with it, then, if you would and have them?

I have come across more than a few things that seem oddly remniscent of things I cannot entirely remember. It may simply be that I am being deceived.

[seeya_next_life]

Yeah this whole place is kind of a constant mindscrew, really. It's hard to tell when we're being deceived and when we're not.

As for Adventuring... what do you wanna know? The Wilderness shifts every so often into all kinds of crazy crap. We've seen worlds of ice, worlds filled with plastic balls, worlds that were giant toy stores, and worlds filled with ponds that will turn you into various animals. It's the ones filled with dinosaurs, zombies, and naked people that you wanna avoid.

[vile_queen]

Are there clues that assist in discerning when something is truly familiar and when it is only an act of this place?

I can understand the danger inherent in dinosaurs and zombies, but I fear you lost me in warning of nudity. Are the naked people armed or rabid?

[heretic_hamlet]

The jobs are mundane as our needs would have them. As one of the Watch, I find excitement and danger enough within my trade, but we've no less need for farmers and craftsmen.

[vile_queen]

Excitement within your trade? Tell me, what is the Watch?

[heretic_hamlet]

We're tasked with peacekeeping and protection, though more than once we've been called to arms for our duties.

Stoneface is our captain; you ought to speak with him if you're interested.

[vile_queen]

Fascinating. So one might call the Watch the law here?

I shall. How would one meet with him?

[flenceburgsbest]

This is Lezard. 'Tis good to see you 'hitting the ground running', as they say.

[vile_queen]

...Running. That is an interesting choice of words, Mr. Valeth.

[flenceburgsbest]

Hmm, have I perhaps rung a bell?

[vile_queen]

I begin to think that perhaps you know you have. I would know what you know, Mr. Valeth.

[andcountry]

I guess it depends on what you would consider not-mundane. People need to do jobs that need to be done.

Though I suppose it's worth asking why "Head Fishbowl Glass Cleaner" is not a job that needs to be done.

I agree with the others about Adventuring. It's also possible that, because the rest of this place is so unusual, available employment has to make up for it.

[vile_queen]

It would of course be complicated to reach the glass and clean it.

Would one not expect to see the unusual in everything when they are born from a pod and live within a tree?

What is it that you do?

[andcountry]

Difficult, but surely not impossible.

Not if one considers being born from a pod and living in a tree unusual. Because none of us are pod-hatching, tree-dwelling creatures by nature we aren't likely to engage in activities sufficiently unusual to go with it. And if we did, we wouldn't consider any of that unusual anyway.

I'm an Adventurer, and I work part-time at the farm. Neither are unusual in and of themselves, but I wouldn't call either of them particularly mundane, either. In some cases it isn't so much the job itself but the specifics that make it strange.

[vile_queen]

There would be little reward unless it showed what was on the outside.

I see. You make an excellent point. One would by nature return to that which is commonplace. It is one way of adaptation.

What specifics of Adventuring make it strange?