What is the Void like?

Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:48 am

I imagine the void as a black nothingness. And since there is nothing in the Void, that also means it has no breathable air, no gravity, no pressure, no natural laws, no time, no thermodynamics. Yes, yes, I know in the video games we get stuck in it a lot by running too quickly into a wall or falling down the side of a wall (especially in Daggerfall, I'd always fall outside the walls in dungeons). But the developers weren't thinking of the blackness outside the interior cells when making the games, as that wasn't part of the game experience. So of course they didn't script or develop anything to experience if you accidentally got stuck outside the boundaries of the game world, because it would be an unintentional accident due to game mechanics. So is the Void just an extension of the immediate area of where you're at? I mean, the Void exists everywhere in everything on the same coordinates, just in a different dimension. If I'm sitting in a chair at a tavern, the Void is within the tavern and all around the chair, just in a different dimension. Any thoughts on what it is like? I'm thinking you'd either explode, implode, die or stop existing.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:34 am

The void IS NOT. Simple, but still, abandon all suppositions ye who enter there. Those head-coverings are insufficiently Anuic to describe the soul of Padhome.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:59 pm

You would probably disappear into the void in the opposite way that Anu and Padomay came into existence. I doubt there's a way for most mortals (or even immortals) to actually enter the Void.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:35 am

Void as in Padomay? Complete and utter 0. Though, if Anu, infinity.

That's really the best answer I can provide. Any idea what 0 will do to something? Don't think there is even a 0 in this universe.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:21 pm

You could look at it like the vacuum of our universe. You view it, it looks like black nothingness, but it's actually a quantum foam of virtual particles, existing and decaying before they have had a chance to really exist. A non existent black hole, surrounded by the unchanging light of infinite Anu, or an infinite seething but empty void surrounding the unchanging white hole of Anu, either way nothing but might have beens that weren't, may bes that aren't, and could bes that won't.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:55 am

Well, I'm asking because for my TESIII: Skyrim showcase mod, I have a room that leads Player to the void. And a message box appears and this is what I wrote:

"You are in the Void, one of many planes of existence outside the known realms. Since this dimension is devoid of any natural laws, time or breathable air, you die instantaneously."

Bleh, it could be a hell of a lot better sounding. The interior cell is absolute pitch black; you can't even see your character since all lights are set to 0. (See Hellmouth, I'm using zero to represent Padomay! (which I still think Padomay would represent infinity since it is "change-incarnate" but let's save that for another discussion)) It's just absolute pure blackness and no way back. What would you guys say in a message box to describe the Void to the Player? And would you have the Player die in the cell? Or no?




The void IS NOT. Simple, but still, abandon all suppositions ye who enter there. Those head-coverings are insufficiently Anuic to describe the soul of Padhome.
What do you mean by "head-coverings"?



Void as in Padomay? Complete and utter 0. Though, if Anu, infinity.
That's really the best answer I can provide. Any idea what 0 will do to something? Don't think there is even a 0 in this universe.
I guess zero would be the absence of everything, include pounds per square inch of pressure, like how on Earth we have 14 lbs per square inch pressing on us and the same amount pressing out from within us. If you had zero pounds per square inch pressing on you, you would explode (like what would happen in space). But in the Void, you'd also have zero time, and when you don't have any time, does everything cease to continue on? Or is there just not anything period? If so, if one entered the Void, would you just suddenly be frozen because of no time? In that case, you also wouldn't be breathing either because your lungs would not function, nor any other part of your body, including your brain and heart, which would mean you'd instantaneously stop functioning, i.e. die. Boy, I could ponder this all day.
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