What could possibly go wrogn?
I have to apologize about the doors.
When we stumbled upon this site originally, having zotted and paved a troll, and then just sticking around for the after-zot partying and such, we knew that the place had a special ambience.
In retrospect, I think I understand. The residual "emanations" that perhaps drew the original poster of the Undead Thread to his "fate", and the unusual coterie of strange beings, including us, to do the excavating and tunneling around it, were produced by the special nano-circuitry of the crashed interstellar craft that produced the original crater.
Let me repeat that in more chronological order.
Many ages ago, an interstellar craft of unknown dimensions and capabilities crashed into an otherwise unremarkable terrain, completely destroying the craft and creating a moderate-sized crater.
Early aboriginal occupants recognized the "magical" properties remaining, somehow, as a residue of the original technology. This was an ancient holy place.
After our tunneling and excavations for the special jewels and other odd minerals, we used available materials to shore up the understructure, making a kind of basket for the Flying Castle so that it could be lifted.
As you'll recall, we followed the perimeter of fractured rock that marked the original crater.
That brings us back to the doors.
I chose an alloy of aluminum bronze for the door-frames, manufactured from materials on-site.
I think that's where the original nano-mechanisms got into our materials. The casting temperature for this alloy was insufficient to inactivate the nano-devices' structure, although it did appear to confuse their programming.
It's for that reason that passing through a door here, or as a paean to an old Science Fiction writer, a Door, one can be transported to odd locations. Apparently, the nano-devices had something to do with the ability to travel faster than light, or something. In any case, they do strange things to local space-time.
That's why we have at least one Door that leads to Key West.
And that's probably the only one we have mapped with accuracy.
The others seem to operate more locally for us, but at more or less random intervals. Mapping the results has been unsuccessful.
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Anyway, that more or less explains about the Doors, at least as far as I can figure it out.
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So it's my fault, okay?
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Sorry about that.
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As long as you only make it rain when and where it will do the most good, I can handle the doors shifting and wavering and sounding like a Thinnie.
You never take *me* to Key West, boss! But under the circumstances, I think it would be better if you took Anoreth. She’s cold.
Also, does that explain the temporal drift we’re experiencing? My previous post is stamped 11:11:01, EST, but my cell phone said it was only 10:57.