From ff109900c5b2a7c471808c62b2ac17c2d4d7a3b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malin Freeborn <malinfreeborn@posteo.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 04:35:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] witness the forest
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eyeline.tex | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
main.tex | 4 +++-
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+\section*{Shifting the Eye-Line}
+
+\begin{multicols}{2}
+
+\noindent
+\Gls{fenestra} does not sit well with our modern instincts.
+We all understand that aeroplanes and cows have irrevocably changed the planet for the worse.
+But in \gls{fenestra}, people fight against a cruel nature.
+They burn the forest while celebrating every toppled tree.
+They despise their own world.
+
+And so naturally, the perspective-switch which \gls{fenestra} demands can feel unclean.
+But you have to understand, their world feels very different.
+
+We created cows through early genetic manipulation of the original animal -- the auroch.
+By the 13th century, aurochs became extinct.
+
+When people travelled during this era, they would only fear other humans.
+They hated wolves for stealing their food, and in some parts of the planet, a few animals had the muscle and teeth to kill a few humans here and there\ldots at least those not paying attention, but no animal has every posed a real danger to humanity on the same level as diseases, starvation, or warfare.
+No city ever disappeared because of large predators eating everyone.
+Humanity has wandered the earth, fearlessly, selecting the best plots of land they could to grow all the food they wished, and fence in the meat.
+
+Disease, starvation and war don't trouble the people in \gls{fenestra} much.
+They have been replaced with the basilisk, chitincrawler, and woodspy.
+Just as Europeans once considered the black death, and other plagues, a standard way to die, any market place in \gls{fenestra} will have updates on what ate whom recently.
+This leaves that world very similar to ours on-balance, but very strange in all the details.
+
+\begin{exampletext}
+ A young man, who does random jobs to get by, with little pay, must dig a grave tonight.
+ The town has no full-time grave-diggers, because most people do not leave a corpse.
+\end{exampletext}
+
+\begin{exampletext}
+ Two men in a bar debate the usefulness of wearing a helmet.
+ The first details the standard attacks from every predator, which mostly involve ambushes, and grabbing.
+
+ \begin{speechtext}
+ ``Helmets stop you spotting an attack.
+ And they don't help when something grabs you.
+
+ In fact, they make everything worse in every way, defending only against bandits.
+ But bandits don't want to eat you, and they're much more timid than real predators, so you can pay them off if you need to.
+ \emph{And} the helmet still stops you spotting the ambush.
+ \end{speechtext}
+
+ The interlocutor has a few good points on the other side, so the debate continues -- should soldiers wear helmets?
+\end{exampletext}
+
+\begin{exampletext}
+ The newest recruit to the \gls{templeOfBeasts} arrives, tired, hungry, and pregnant.
+ Not long before, most people who became pregnant would receive some dispensation to take time off, or would receive permission to work as \pgls{jotter} instead of fighting at the \gls{edge}.
+ However, this lead to an explosion of pregnancies within the \gls{guard}, which lead to a group of the hardest bastards to walk \gls{fenestra}'s dark roads.
+\end{exampletext}
+
+\end{multicols}
diff --git a/main.tex b/main.tex
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+++ b/main.tex
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ Keywords={TTRPG,RPG,roleplaying}
\glsunsetall
-\include{intro}
+\input{intro.tex}
+
+\input{eyeline.tex}
\mainmatter
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