Age Creation Proposal

[Emor D'ni Lap]

Perhaps an old obstacle course that was used for training, was uncovered from the rubble of the fallen city of D'ni and adapted by some of the explorers as a competition age Similar to the Gahreesen Wall as part of the story?

I think I might know what Ben was talking about.
Minkata is a pretty good example of a Training area, for the Guild of Surveyors. The Gahreesen Wall is a great game concept (if it worked in multiplayer!), but normally it would be impractical to devote that much of a spinning building to a single-aspect training exercise. "Of course, it's just a game", we can say.

But in a larger story, why bubbles?

Again, it doesn't seem the kind of thing any Guild would train for: "I am now an Expert in Bubble Navigation"!

Maybe instead, this is some kind of natural phenomenon in the Age? Maybe there's a pool at a dead-end in an explorer's path, containing a soapy ingredient, with a waterfall aerating it. Large bubbles form, occasionally spilling over into an adjacent ravine that is too steep in places for an avatar to negotiate. So the only way forward would be for the explorer to jump into the bubble and roll over the nearby cliff in it?

Sounds like it could be quite beautiful - but a large number of these bubbles would have to rendered simultaneously. A proof of concept would be good.
But I still agree with Ben: what is the real underlying story for this Age? Is there a moral to the tale we want to tell?