Imagine if you will...
Dawn breaking over the spires of a thriving city. Every building is the same pattern of brilliant yellow and the jet black inhabitants scale the twinning structures as the light rousts them from slumber. There is no ground as such. The city itself is a grown thing. A fungus of incredible size and complexity. The roads follow the branching contours up, over, and around. It is rooted in the crook of a giant tree, anchoring to the dead wood that still holds the strength of stone. It is both food and shelter to its inhabitants. It is poison to every other species on the world offering protection as well. For as long as the species can remember these living cities have provided everything they have needed. But they wonder what exists outside. For word has come in from those hardy souls driven to explore. There is an end to the seemingly endless forest. Impossibly large beasts roam the terrifyingly open surfaces outside. And there is something else. Something that exists at the edge of their perception and understanding. A gleaming vessel that released something giant, bipedal, confined to the flat plane of the ground. Something...alien.
Dawn breaking over the spires of a thriving city. Every building is the same pattern of brilliant yellow and the jet black inhabitants scale the twinning structures as the light rousts them from slumber. There is no ground as such. The city itself is a grown thing. A fungus of incredible size and complexity. The roads follow the branching contours up, over, and around. It is rooted in the crook of a giant tree, anchoring to the dead wood that still holds the strength of stone. It is both food and shelter to its inhabitants. It is poison to every other species on the world offering protection as well. For as long as the species can remember these living cities have provided everything they have needed. But they wonder what exists outside. For word has come in from those hardy souls driven to explore. There is an end to the seemingly endless forest. Impossibly large beasts roam the terrifyingly open surfaces outside. And there is something else. Something that exists at the edge of their perception and understanding. A gleaming vessel that released something giant, bipedal, confined to the flat plane of the ground. Something...alien.
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