User talk:JonBuck/A Kind of Paradise

Setting Notes

Basics

• The number of furries doubles each year. The story is actually at Year 21, when there are just over one million furries. The next year will add a million, and so forth.
• The first furry in 1987 was a vixen, with a tod the next year. Some stereotypes do have a basis in "reality". :)
  • The entire world will be furry in 2020.
• Species are generally native to a particular continent. So most people in North America will end up whitetail deer, elk, bears, foxes, wolves, etc. Recent immigrants will more likely end up native species to wherever they came from.
• No birds unless the laws of physics get bent a bit so they can actually fly... Which still may happen.
• With every iteration, it's possible that an already-changed person could experience (with increasing rarity, all less than one percent):
  • A species change. ("What the..? I'm a wolf now? What am I supposed to do with all these hoof picks?")
  • A gender change. ("Well, I guess the fawns have two moms.")
  • A combination of both. ("Don't even call me a bitch!")
• Furries can still interbreed with one another as if they were all still human. Children get a 50/50 chance of which of the parents' species they follow.
• Conversely, humans cannot interbreed with humans, probably due to the RDF.

The Reality Distortion Field

• Humans can't see furries for what they are. They still see whatever the person looked like before, even if that person was the opposite gender.
• Some things aren't filtered correctly. Consequently...
  • If a TGed man gets pregnant, the filter will change that person's image to female. But she will still appear human.
  • Things like hoof/paw prints, shed fur, shed antlers, clawmarks, animal odors, etc., are not filtered. So if a cougar morph gets in a fight with a normal human and lashes out with his claws, he could cause a hell of a lot of damage.
  • Consequently, some humans think that there is something up. And some have figured out that the friends who claim to be furry actually are what they claim to be.
• It's possible to break the RDF, but I haven't figured out under what circumstances yet.
• Things like medical care and surgery are still unknowns at this point. We'll see what future stories require.

The Numbers

Total sequence as follows:

Year  Total Furries (plus or minus, given births and deaths)
1987: 1 
1988: 2
1989: 4
1990: 8
1991: 16
1992: 32
1993: 64
1994: 128
1995: 256
1996: 512
1997: 1,028
1998: 2,056
1999: 4,112
2000: 8,224
2001: 16,448
2002: 32,896
2003: 65,792
2004: 131,584
2005: 263,168
2006: 526,336
2007: 1,052,672
2008: 2,105,344
2009: 4,210,688
2010: 8,421,376
2011: 16,842,752
2012: 33,685,504
2013: 67,371,008
2014: 134,742,016
2015: 269,484,032
2016: 538,968,064
2017: 1,077,936,128
2018: 2,155,872,256
2019: 4,311,744,512
2020: 8,623,489,024