Aether, You spent much of your break on telekinesis practice, “playing with various common objects” so that afterwards you knew “where to apply her light taps of force to get them to behave”. That sounds dangerously close to experimentation. Am I misunderstanding how your world works, and it would only be dangerous if you tried to extrapolate from “push a door far from its hinges” to “use the concept of leverage to start an industrial revolution”? Amariah, Have you checked on the Clouded Mountain since you got back? Stella, How easy is blocking somebody on Mars? Can you unblock, assuming the other party doesn’t have you blocked, just as easily? I can see it being useful when navigating a crowded situation: “the subway teleportation system is overtaxed today and the Empress hasn’t had the chance to fix it yet, so I’ll block the people in my way and unblock them when I’m at my destination” or “the concert is too popular for all the people attending, so I’ll block the guy who’s sitting in the seat I want, and unblock him once the concert’s over”. Is this possible? Do you have a better way to handle that kind of problem? Shell Bell, When Shell was in the box, she had various “fantasies” which were at least partly true. If answering this wouldn’t be too distressing, how accurate were they? Angela, Most of what the Samarian settlers did seems misguided, but potentially sensible given this misguidance (of course they could have done better even so, like by having two people or all oracles know about Jehovah, but the concept of redundancy isn't clear to everybody). However, I do not understand why Jehovah was programmed to destroy Samaria if there's a year with no Gloria. Is it just a threat to prevent the Sinai oracles from telling? I doubt that’s the only reason. Obviously it was better to get rid of that command, but if you also don’t know why it was there you might want to see if it was fulfilling some other purpose you can fill better without the threat of violence. Rose, Beast told you that the witch who imprisoned him told him how to break the curse. Is that some requirement with enchanting, like how having a cooperative channel helps, or was this another aspect of Beast's imprisonment that just doesn't add up (like why his brother thought he was entitled to Beast)? Cam, Did you pentagon away the habit of talking in your sleep? Would it have been dangerous to keep it while being fluent in the Speech? Do other Bells also do that? Rapunzel (before meeting Rolan), Under what circumstances would you find it acceptable for somebody to read your private notebooks? For example, if you were to suddenly disappear while Gothel was away, would you mind if she read the very end of your latest notebook in case that had a clue about why? Other Bells, same question as for Rapunzel above (but without the example which doesn’t apply to them) Glass, You said that freecasting was a skill that theoretically anybody could learn but practically only Jokers could learn in a reasonable amount of time. If it’s a mundane nonmagical skill, is it pentagonable? Amariah, Outside of Alethia, if a human gets a certain type of brain injury, it can temporarily or permanently affect their personality. Is this true within Alethia too? Does it affect the dæmon in any way? Glass, I would expect that the President of the United States elected in the year 2000 is the same for, say, Origin and for Queenie's world. Would he technically count as a template, or as part of the Earth template? If you look at one of them, can you tell a difference between them and, say, the monarch of your country of birth (who is not at all a template or repeated anywhere in the known multiverse)?
Questions for Relatively Major Greens
You spent much of your break on telekinesis practice, “playing with various common objects” so that afterwards you knew “where to apply her light taps of force to get them to behave”. That sounds dangerously close to experimentation. Am I misunderstanding how your world works, and it would only be dangerous if you tried to extrapolate from “push a door far from its hinges” to “use the concept of leverage to start an industrial revolution”?
Amariah,
Have you checked on the Clouded Mountain since you got back?
Stella,
How easy is blocking somebody on Mars? Can you unblock, assuming the other party doesn’t have you blocked, just as easily? I can see it being useful when navigating a crowded situation: “the subway teleportation system is overtaxed today and the Empress hasn’t had the chance to fix it yet, so I’ll block the people in my way and unblock them when I’m at my destination” or “the concert is too popular for all the people attending, so I’ll block the guy who’s sitting in the seat I want, and unblock him once the concert’s over”. Is this possible? Do you have a better way to handle that kind of problem?
Shell Bell,
When Shell was in the box, she had various “fantasies” which were at least partly true. If answering this wouldn’t be too distressing, how accurate were they?
Angela,
Most of what the Samarian settlers did seems misguided, but potentially sensible given this misguidance (of course they could have done better even so, like by having two people or all oracles know about Jehovah, but the concept of redundancy isn't clear to everybody). However, I do not understand why Jehovah was programmed to destroy Samaria if there's a year with no Gloria. Is it just a threat to prevent the Sinai oracles from telling? I doubt that’s the only reason. Obviously it was better to get rid of that command, but if you also don’t know why it was there you might want to see if it was fulfilling some other purpose you can fill better without the threat of violence.
Rose,
Beast told you that the witch who imprisoned him told him how to break the curse. Is that some requirement with enchanting, like how having a cooperative channel helps, or was this another aspect of Beast's imprisonment that just doesn't add up (like why his brother thought he was entitled to Beast)?
Cam,
Did you pentagon away the habit of talking in your sleep? Would it have been dangerous to keep it while being fluent in the Speech? Do other Bells also do that?
Rapunzel (before meeting Rolan),
Under what circumstances would you find it acceptable for somebody to read your private notebooks? For example, if you were to suddenly disappear while Gothel was away, would you mind if she read the very end of your latest notebook in case that had a clue about why?
Other Bells, same question as for Rapunzel above (but without the example which doesn’t apply to them)
Glass,
You said that freecasting was a skill that theoretically anybody could learn but practically only Jokers could learn in a reasonable amount of time. If it’s a mundane nonmagical skill, is it pentagonable?
Amariah,
Outside of Alethia, if a human gets a certain type of brain injury, it can temporarily or permanently affect their personality. Is this true within Alethia too? Does it affect the dæmon in any way?
Glass,
I would expect that the President of the United States elected in the year 2000 is the same for, say, Origin and for Queenie's world. Would he technically count as a template, or as part of the Earth template? If you look at one of them, can you tell a difference between them and, say, the monarch of your country of birth (who is not at all a template or repeated anywhere in the known multiverse)?