Here it is.

New explaination:



Both squares are outer layers on Continuum. The distance between point A and point B is equal to the distance between point C and point D. There are twelve of these squards and they interlace together at the corners/center of the sides.

See, this sounds like it's going to make the most sense to me... until I think about it, and realise there are no up or down exits. How, therefore, can it be a tube?

Any exit that leads to a different square slopes either up or down, if you want to imagine it this way. Therefore, heading around Continuum in a helical fashion would lead to your travelling 'up' or 'down' the tube until you came back around to where you started.

It isn't a tube. Turning at a 45° angle and then going straight will take you "up" or "down" to a different color of gemstone. A beter analogy would be in and out, but that isn't really quite it either.

Nope, it's not working for me - but it is 2:30am. I shall have to look at it in the harsh light of afternoon, when I'll get up.

Continuum is like a spring with toothpicks running through it on a horizontal plane.

Imagine, if you will, a kangaroo in a washing machine with a rubik's cube in its pouch...

My solution for Continuum is my solution for things like time travel and the like...just don't think about it too hard, say "yeah, that's cool, it works how it works" and just wing it. Saves me a lot of headaches and confusion.

PATH FIND

Best explanation thus far.

What are the cyan and grey rooms in your map supposed to represent? (I get how the other coloured ones come in fours and represent each sphere's territory)

The grey one in the middle is the sphere-room (depending on which colour you're standing on when you go to the middle). The two to the side of it are the rooms that don't have any correlation to a colour (a labyrinth of stalagmites and the hexagonal weald). The cyan colours are actually the two turquoise. Theoretically those other two rooms (hexagonal and stalagmites) should be part of that, but they just don't follow the colour pattern that everything else does so I did not colour them.

One of several things that point to the four-dimensional approach -- there are also no exits at a right angle to reality, or are there?

But this thread has bifurcated. Half the people are talking about "how to find your way" and the other half are still on the original question "what is it really like" -- and those lead to wildly different answers. Problem is, some of the people who think they're answering one of those questions are actually answering the other one. Wheee, fun!

It's terribly easy to make it simply three or even two-dimensional provided you're willing to ignore any one fact, like the way any part you say is inside another part is also outside it, or the way the centers overlap one another. I don't think you can make a three-dimensional model that works without ignoring one such thing. A three-dimensional model (made with Tinkertoys, say) will therefore approximate it exactly as well as how this approximate a three-dimensional cube:


And that's a hallmark that it would work in four dimensions. But that said, I have neither the skills nor the software necessary to actually model it that way to verify that it would, in fact, work. I'm just convinced that no three-dimensional model truly works without ignoring something.

My son Zakkias is back! I wasn't a horrible mother who made him leave, he just wasn't around! I lurve my son! *happydances*

To me, its a helix with the Spheres inside the helical shape, and the bottom and top of the helix just connect to each other. It looks like this: http://mystique-vfx.com/onlinestore/images...Glass_Helix.jpg

Except that inside the ring are the Sphere rooms, and the bottom and top of the helix at the same thing. Repeating e, ne, n, nw, w, sw, s, se, e will get you all the way around the helix, "top" to "bottom".

I saw Felicia posting today. Yay she's back?

Sadie and I make an excellent pilot-empath team.

Now all we need to do is get a fully functional aethership.

Exciting.

I swear, if I could, I would have Morgfyre's babies. I can't wait to get home from work. >< That probably made sense to no one but me.

I want in on that action. Alt time?