Scenario title

[ffutures]

For some reason I feel a VERY strong urge to write a Flatland scenario outline called "At the mountains of flatness," but have no idea what it should be about except that non-Euclidean geometry should come in somewhere. Any suggestions?

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Fair question, but it's probably no harder to make a fountain work than to make a mountain work!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Flatland mountains are simply impassable masses of rock. You have to go around them, and since there is a weak gravitational pull to the South you get occasional avalanches along the sides etc.

I suppose you could have some sort of North-firing fountain - the water would curve back and end up going south - but the actual business of piping water in a 2D world is VERY tricky, may not work at all.