Chapter 2: The Leaning Tower of Pizza

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Now, you have to understand, I first created Danada nearly a decade ago, when I was in the seventh grade. Since then it has been revised, retconned and completely destroyed and recreated several times; sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. However, I had never started over chronologically from the beginning. I was at a bit of a loss as to how to proceed. I could make the world similar to what it was before, or I could do something completely different.
             
“What do you guys think?” I asked my two companions. “How should I make Danada this time?”

             
<Well you should probably just start with The Leaning Tower of Pizza again,> suggested Pudding. <That was always a classic.>

             
“The Leaning Tower of Pizza?” I said sceptically. “I dunno. Isn’t that kind of cheesy? I mean-”

            
 “Pun intended?” interrupted Toaster-Man.

             
“Does it really matter? Anyway, I was kind of thinking of going for a more serious tone this time around. You know, darker and grittier, that kind of thing.”

             
“What.” said Toaster-Man with so little emphasis it didn’t even get a question mark. “Do you really think that would work? Your two characters so far are a telepathic fish, and me, a superhero with powers of toast.”

             
<Also, this place is named Pizza Paradise,> pointed out Pudding.

            
 “I’ve been meaning to change the name!” I protested.

            
<You also still called your world Danada, and the fact remains that it just wouldn’t be Danada without the Leaning Tower of Pizza.>

            
“Although I maintain it would still be better if you called it The Leaning Tower of Toast.” You should probably be able to figure out who said that.

            
“That makes no sense it isn’t even similar to what it’s parodying!” I said exasperated and breathlessly. “Anyway we’re just repeating a conversation we had the first time Danada was created.”

             
<I thought you wanted a reboot,> said Pudding. <This kind of stuff happens.>

             
“Fine, Toast Tower,” said Toaster-Man. “That sounds kind of like Trump Tower… if you squint… your ears.”

             
“Well I guess the people who never read the original version don’t care about the repetition. However this is starting to bore me. Let’s just get on with it.”

             
<The onus of action is kind of on you here, as the author and literal god.>

            
“Fine, I’ll make the bloody tower of pizza.” I did so. There was now a cylindrical tower with a giant pizza slice on top floating in space in the dimension directly below us. “But I don’t feel like designing all the floors so I’ll just leave most of them undefined for now.” The first floor always contained a pizzeria, but the others I left in a state of quantum flux.

             
“Ah, good ol’ Toast Tower,” said Toaster-Man.

I then went about making the grounds around the tower, making sure to create gravity on a bit of an angle to the perpendicular of said tower in order to give it its signature lean. Surrounding the tower was a park, and surrounding said park was a small city.

            
 “I think I’ll just keep Danada as a single continent,” I said. “Makes for a nice minimalist aesthetic.”

             
<Ah, right, minimalism,> said Pudding. <And yet my psychic empathy senses an ulterior motive.>

             
“He’s just lazy,” said Toaster-Man. “Doesn’t want to design a full planet.”

             
“Well it’s hard work, okay?” I responded in justification. “Besides, why make something you’re not gonna use?”

            
“And yet you don’t even design the floors of the tower that a bunch of people will soon be in?” said Toaster-Man

             
“Come on, it has like a hundred floors!”

            
<Like a hundred?>

             
“Well, the number of floors is kind of undefined right now too…”

             
“How does that even follow physics?” asked Toaster-Man.

             
“Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.”

             
<That doesn’t apply to macroscopic objects!> protested Pudding.

            
“Whatever. I’m a god; I can break the laws of physics, just not logic.” I clarified.

            
“Riiight, your world is totally logical,” Toaster-Man said ironically.

             
“Well the new readers haven’t even seen it yet. Perhaps I should go back to making it.”

             
I created the Danadian continent. It was roughly rectangular shaped but with a cut off corner in the southeast. Actually I’ll just make a map; that would be better.

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