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** Plus, they can't really select a world it seems, as random chains open different worlds, the same chains used to open some worlds open others (making them inconsistent) and also, the different methods as mentioned above. |
** Plus, they can't really select a world it seems, as random chains open different worlds, the same chains used to open some worlds open others (making them inconsistent) and also, the different methods as mentioned above. |
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* The Magician's Nephew, the (chronologically) first book of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'', has the 'Wood Between Worlds'. Put on one ring in Earth, Narnia, or Charn (and presumably many others) and you get magicked to a forest filled with ponds. Stand in one of the ponds and put on a second ring, and you get transported to the corresponding universe. |
* The Magician's Nephew, the (chronologically) first book of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'', has the 'Wood Between Worlds'. Put on one ring in Earth, Narnia, or Charn (and presumably many others) and you get magicked to a forest filled with ponds. Stand in one of the ponds and put on a second ring, and you get transported to the corresponding universe. |
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* ''[[Planescape]]'' has Sigil, connected via portals with pretty much all the Multiverse. Also, the top (i.e. immediately accessible with non-specific planeshifting) layer of Abyss is called The Plain of Infinite Portals - it's riddled with portals to the innumerable deeper layers. |
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* Real life cities are usually like this, especially in sparsely populated areas such as the Midwest US and eastern Russia; the spread of railroads in fact turned nowheresvilles like Worcester, Massachusetts into major hubs by virtue of being convenient transfer points. (Subverted in the case of Bielefeld, Germany, where the "Bielefeld Conspiracy" (the meme that Bielefeld doesn't actually exist despite having a population of 300,000) has to do with the fact that a) Bielefeld is a major city essentially in the middle of nowhere (at least by European standards) and b) the nearest major railroad trunk never goes anywhere near the city center). |
* Real life cities are usually like this, especially in sparsely populated areas such as the Midwest US and eastern Russia; the spread of railroads in fact turned nowheresvilles like Worcester, Massachusetts into major hubs by virtue of being convenient transfer points. (Subverted in the case of Bielefeld, Germany, where the "Bielefeld Conspiracy" (the meme that Bielefeld doesn't actually exist despite having a population of 300,000) has to do with the fact that a) Bielefeld is a major city essentially in the middle of nowhere (at least by European standards) and b) the nearest major railroad trunk never goes anywhere near the city center). |
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