[OOC][PLOT] Galaxy Building (Where we make Magrathea look like small potatoes)

[Labster]

Hey, Brent, here's something that you might want to look at. Or not. (I haven't had a chance to look at it myself; I'm just going by the name.)

One might think, but there's no way to read the story, or even know if there were ever more than 7 pages published.

A Harry Dresden meeting with Sakura Kinomoto should happen, but would require me to start reading some novels first.  I saw like half of that TV series, back in the pre-Netflix days when you just missed shows.  But I've heard it wasn't the best representation, so, novels.

Heh.  If you want to pull in Buckaroo Banzai, I certainly won't object, but I suspect Buckaroo would strike out on his own as soon as possible and have a fortune within in a year.

As for why it's coming to mind, well...  A lot of it is set in New Brunswick (although we don't have palm trees near the county jail, regardless of what the movie thinks).  And depending on your source, the Banzai compound was in the city, too.  The club(s) that Artie's Artery was based on are long gone, sadly, engulfed and destroyed by The Hospital That Ate New Brunswick.

I was thinking more along the lines of having the Banzai Institute just appear, watermelon and all.  Also, you should do something about that lack of palm trees, seriously.  I mean, we have them at the Ventura County Jail (/me checks imagery), or well, we have them at the county courthouse, if you walk through across a magnolia lined path to the jail.

I have been wondering, on a metaphysical level, if there are certain universes that can't be dumped into ours.  We've been using a computer metaphor, but take the metaphor/location from The Magician's Nephew.  If you imagine it to be a flood in that Wood Between the Worlds, then little bits of water (story) all get dumped together into the Metacontinuity.  But well, some universes just aren't there any more.  Charn is gone by the end of the book, and Narnia is created in its place.  And by the end of the next book, Narnia is gone too (#spoilers).  Is there something about the timestream on how recently something has been written in our universe that makes it "available" to us?  Just for note, the oldest character we've written about so far is HAL-9000.