#arcadia
Its not for the reason you think.
Here’s the thing about traveling to fundamentally different realities. This isn’t like hopping over to some parallel Earth that’s playing out minor variations of events on what we’d see as a standard model of physics.
This is more of a, well, they’re not fully perpendicular realities, those are several magnitudes different than what we’re dealing with here. But the angles are off. These, and the quanta just… aren’t quite the same.
Yeah, it looks like matter, tastes like matter. But they’re made of different quarks and gluons and whatnot. For the ones people fall into a lot, places like Arcadia, the Dragon Palace, or Ultramerica, traditional matter is stable there pretty much indefinitely. This doesn’t work the other direction, though. Depending on the plane the effect can vary, but typically this means a rapidly escalating rate of radioactive decay as the atoms break apart bit by bit.
You’re gonna take a few (dozen) chest x-rays worth from what you absorb just by breathing, but the real problem is food and water. If you eat native food for long enough, the problem ceases to be radiation poisoning, and starts being how much of your body mass can potentially just cease to be as the kind of matter it is stops working under our universal laws.
Now, if you ate or drank something while there, you’re not doomed. If you’re traveling with the aid of local powers (as you should) then anyone reputable should be able to provide a sort of decompression zone at the crossover zone where you can let your body re-adjust and clear most of the dangerous stuff out.
Even if not, it takes several days for the material from most such realities to become dangerous. Drink a lot of extra water, eat full meals, and exercise as you’re able. Voracious eating habits among fae are actually as survival tactic for those acclimating for a long stay.
Now, some people are going to tell you to take iron supplements or to even take iron powder orally or topically. Iron does react with certain elements from Arcadia, yes, but the mass is all still there and will still break down on the exact same timescale.
Kampot days are spent floating riverside and scooting through the hills. Arcadia is a haven tucked away upstream. Being in Kampot is like listening to this song.
Kampot, Cambodia Kampot days are spent floating riverside and scooting through the hills. Arcadia is a haven tucked away upstream.had fun drawing this for arcadia day (even if it’s late)