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>Is the [White Ceiling] the age past which powerful healing (or resurrection) no longer works?
Got it in one! People die pretty quickly from normal sickness after this age, so it's basically life expectancy. (Not a lot of non-magical medical research.)
>What notable megacorps are there aside from Evangate?
- Qrystal® is a Shima based company that manufactures PDAs. They're mostly government controlled because PDAs quickly became a necessity for just about all modern work. They're the thing you're seeing when Shiné projects her quest log or something. PDAs can read your Unique Mana Signature and thereby function as your ID, Passport, etc, and if you pick up another person's PDA it displays your stuff rather than theirs. They're also free. Qrystal doesn't really have any competitors but they're practically a government agency at this point so it's fine.
- Van Merr® is a company that makes fashionable monster slaying equipment. Whenever you see a slimming chain mail bikini or anything like that, it's usually by Van Merr, as equipment found in the wild is usually clunkier and more darksoulsy. They're also big in the industry of buying your shit because they disenchant thousands of pounds of trash equipment you get to try to make better custom outfits out of it. Van Merr's main competitor is Taiga® who also buys and sells equipment but they don't really make anything themselves. Taiga's like the auction house ebay company. Van Merr has been trying to get an Evangate Contract for forever but Evangate prefers to make their clothes in house.
- The Alhambra Trade Company makes all the boats in the world that transports all the barges and stuff. It's not as efficient as Earth's shipping container warehouse database system but they've got their ways. If you wanna do any business across the ocean you have to do it through ATC.
- Shibuya, as a city, is basically a big megacorp too. Shibuya is The Golden Saucer from FF7, as a giant city, basically.
- Zeal Pet Services. They'll rent you a catgirl if you're a sad demon who is depressed. Absolutely nothing fetishy going on here. Honest. (There actually isn't, much to the chagrin of some of the customers and contrary to the beliefs of some people on the surface. Professional therapy nurse/maid/pet/cat.)
There's also guilds for just about every RPG class you can think of, and more!
>Are Blue / Pink / Orange states basically confederations of states like the European Union?
I've attached a map of the major city states of the world. Generally speaking, if states are the same color they're allied, except for the gray ones which unaffiliated and weird. I say "generally speaking" because sometimes these alliances are a little tense, like Corneria and Fallenhal, or Fargasta and everyone. Blue states are pretty nice places to live if you're poor and fucking shitty places to live if you're rich. Pink states are the opposite. Orange states are more diverse and have less in common with each other and are mostly allied because Fallenhal is like old timey british colonialist.
Oh and the little teal dots are Elven encampments. Don't worry about those. They mostly keep to themselves and serve as nice little hubs for adventurers to resupply.
>If solving [God's Curse] would allow the disenchanting of gods, I'd imagine at least some of the gods would be against that sort of thing. Are they able to do anything about it?
I should clarify. "Gods" is sort of a misleading word that makes you imagine the Greek Pantheon, but they're pretty different. NewRem had one God that was killed with a magical pun and then upon their death they were split up into two twin, a brother and a sister. The sister managed to straight up die of old age eventually, but then her position and role ended up going up for grabs in a weird way that just about any human can sit on the throne and acquire her nature in a similar fashion to the way a personality sphere in Portal 2 changes when they're plugged in to the enrichment center, except like... good? Anyway so disenchanting [God's Curse] would let you poof the still alive God, but not kill it. They could just assign themselves a new form. Disenchanting the Human God that is currently running the show in Celestia would have more severe consequences so... uh... don't do that. The Goddess is Cynthia Evangate though, so it's unlikely the White Mages want to disenchant her, but you know how it is. The White Mages have a Batman plot to kill everybody they know. [Holy] is a white mage invention to kill demons, for example. They've also got other stuff like [Turn Undead] and the like. This would just be another and they'd probably call it something like [Theodicy] if they get it.
>How do dungeons work?
Dungeons work much the same way as they do in an MMO with some of them just being locations that people mark on maps that are usually tunnels through the ground that monsters have taken up residency in, and others being little pocket dimensions where time progresses differently like a little Narnia. Stuff respawns in the second kind and a lot of the natural resources that the world has to work with comes from them. "Instanced Dungeons" like the second sort are either way more forgiving than the tunnels or far less forgiving depending on how regulated they are. Most of the low level dungeons are regulated so hard that if you die in them you instantly wake up outside the dungeon with some of your money missing that goes to the upkeep of the domain. More difficult dungeons generally don't or can't be
>Did Shine actually end up swapping kids?
Not yet. (Probably not ever. Once the player loses control of Worby she goes back to behaving normally.)
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