: Wait; are you saying it's a "Ringworld"-style
: ring and not a "Halo"- style ring?
That's what I was thinking of. And if it were a Halo-style ring, it could still have an eccentric orbit, getting slightly nearer and farther from the sun as it goes. Even if it were at a larange point, as the Halo appears to be, it could wobble in the larange point. Or, if it actually orbits a planet instead of just trailing it at a larange point, then it could be the slow orbit giving it "seasons", being in summer when it's on the sun-side of the planet and winter when on the far-side (though not completely eclipsed, just like we can see a new moon without being eclipsed by it, mythworlders, if on a Culture Orbital like the Halo, could see a "new planet" in their sky without being eclipsed by it. Hey, that could even have something to do with the 'comet').
: I'd go for the "Head just blew up" argument.
: It's been so long since the Devoid was created that,
: even if it did extend entirely through the Mythworld
: originally, it's probably filled up partway with dust
: and debris by now, layered onto the force field.
: It could have been another dead member of the Nine who
: happened to be nearby; Jari could have drunk one too
: many bottles of Surly Dwarf Ale to "raise his
: courage" before beginning his mission; and the
: Dwarf could have been wearing platform shoes in the
: movie because he heard that the camera always takes
: off two to three feet of height! Ha! And again, ha!
The first two I could buy (or maybe just rent for a bit), but you've got the third one backwards: there are two Dwarves, a Jman, a Zerk, and an archer in the movie; but there is ONE Dwarf, a Jman, TWO zerks, and an archer in the game. Shows what you know! I fart wighty-pussy (as in, filled with Wight pus; get your head out of the gutter!) death fever in your general direction, PPPTHTHTHBBBTTT!!! PPTHTHTT!! PTH!
