#lightofthefirefly2017

[niekada-never]

The Void: "Ow, ow ow ow!" That hurt why did you catch me? I wanted to join Tenir wherever they are. *pouts* "No more candy for you" :P

(The Void’s brief period of openness closes off as you see, for a split-second, black-and-white shadows of long-forgotten candy roil in its depths.)

[niekada-never]

Void: Jumps into the void and sings Monster from Imagine Dragons.

(You try to jump in. The Void expends actual energy to stop you. It’s a little painful. You are with pain.)

(It likes your music, though. It can forgive you. Doesn’t mean The Void will be answering any questions for a while.)

[niekada-never]

@The Void: Jump into the void to see what it's like inside.

(…If the Void could sigh, it would do that right before it kicks you out. You’ve done this before, but this time was much more pleasant. It remembers you gave it candy, and is currently recovering from panic, not panickING.)

[niekada-never]

@The Void: How do you talk you don't have a face let alone a mouth or is it hidden somewhere? If I jumped in what would happen?

(The void is sulking. It doesn’t want to answer your questions right now, but it would prefer if you didn’t…)

[niekada-never]

Mon: Can you explain to me about the different planes? Help me understand please.

Time for a plane explanation! Let’s start with a quick overview of what planes are.

PLANES refer to the different ‘floors’, let’s say, of the house of existence.

POSITIVE PLANES are planes which reside in the less meta sector of fiction.

NEGATIVE PLANES are planes which reside in the highly meta sector of fiction, and you go far enough back and it’s all reality.

The majority of ask blogs reside on the +1 plane. In our house analogy, think of each blog as a room on the floor. Some leave their doors unlocked, others are more secretive. Either way, they allow in some influence from negative planes, so they’re the closest to those planes.

Other fiction, like books and movies, reside on the +2 plane. Again, think of rooms in a house. These can be tinkered with and brought down to lower levels, where ask blogs are created and such, but they are their own enigma and generally don’t consort with such folk.

The +3 plane is the realm of thought. An idea, unvoiced and unused, remains in the realm of thought. No outside influence can touch it. It’s on the roof, and there’s no stairwell.

The -1 plane houses some interesting folk you’ll learn about a little later, but such folk do quality control on the positive planes and the Void. They ensure continuity, do the work of retcons, and in the case of the Void, orchestrate that what has been promised to be done is carried out. They’re a little upset with the Void and its inhabitants right now, though they are normally very close, and are scrambling to fix plot holes and time loops that have tangled themselves in other +1 rooms. Try not to disturb them.

The -2 plane is a comfy cozy basement with all sorts of fun things to tinker with for us. You know, us. Muns. Askers. Not your real live selves, which are extraplanar (don’t conform to the planar system), but your internet identities. We consort all the time. You’re familiar with this, I don’t need to go into detail.

The -3 plane is something I talk about with great caution, to avoid unfixable breaches in reality. It is the blogspace. It is the Internet. We do not talk about Fight Club.

The Void is where Tenir and the Void and the rest of this ask blog rests on the planar continuum. I like to colliqually call it the Zero plane. It isn’t quite nestled in the rest of fiction because of its close interaction with -1. The Void, before it started accepting -2′s voices, was nothing but the hallways of this house. A highway for interblog travel, or heck, even intrablog travel. As it is now more sentient and has inhabitants, it’s now preoccupied and makes that kind of travel harder. Still… you might find it streamlines the process of allowing direct contact between -2 and +1, in some cases.

This is probably all a little confusing, but I’m always available to talk planar system now that our little murder mystery is wrapping up.

[niekada-never]

Is Ten on our plane of existence -2 I believe it is?

Your plane of existence is negative two.

You have this much correct.

The answer is right in front of you.

[niekada-never]

Is Ten on a +1 Plane?? (I don't know anything about this stuff so I'm just guessing. Ald says that Ten is usually -1 and were -2 but I don't know what that is so heres just guessing)

Nope. Go back and look. Positive planes are properly marked, according to protocol.

[niekada-never]

Ten is right here isn't he?

Well, not precisely. You’re on the right track, just ride it forward one stop.