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So we've started answering comments in "How To Read Effulgence" in character, and that's not really the ideal platform for those conversations. This is! You may address characters here and we may opt to answer in character. You will get a kind of loosely "backstage" out-of-continuity version of the character (in continuity proper, you cannot talk to them, since you aren't there) and if you want them at a specific (past relative to where we're writing) point in time, feel free to specify (e.g. "Addy in 1932", "Shell in her box", "the Joker while committed", "Minus right after he woke up from turning", "the alethiometer on the subject of 1207").

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Milliways Doorables

[daniel_h]

Glass, I’ve been meaning to ask for a while: if Milliways replaced a witch-door (not a witch-door in a Jarvis or other sentient building, as that would add further complicating factors, just an ordinary witch-door), would you then be able to open that door to Milliways thereafter? I’d expect so, and that the only reason you were cut off during Jane’s second failure was that this had never happened, but I wouldn’t be that surprised if I were wrong.

Although, Jarvis–Enchanted Forest, this does make me wonder if and how you can handle the witch-doors. I’d expect you could fully handle them (with my next guess being that you can only open them to wherever they were last opened). If so, is controlling their destination anything like opening a door to Milliways?

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Anybell, the brainphone (v1) was originally designed to be extensible to nonsentient things, with Stella specifically thinking of potentially adding a sewing machine interface to it. Has this (adding something nonsentient in general, not necessarily a sewing machine) ever happened? I was thinking I’d want to add it to my computer as a more-secure SSH, but that would be redundant with and inferior to Jane inhabiting most of the computers anyway (especially now that she swears she won’t break again).

Cam, have you added anything that, if from another universe, would be nonsentient? For example, any stars you’re friends with? Does it work as expected?

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Jane, how would you feel about a competition where security experts tried to design systems you couldn’t eat, and then you tried to eat them anyway? You broke all the security in your native world, but Jarvis was able to spit you out (although I don’t know if he’d be able to succeed if you were trying to eat him anyway. I also don’t know how I never realized before that at some point in the discussion about you interacting with Jarvis, the metaphor got reversed); I also strongly suspect there are (even in my relatively-in-the-past world) theoretical nonsentient security protocols that could stop you, even if they haven’t been used competently or implemented bug-free.

Re: Milliways Doorables

[thaumobabble]

Witch-doors need to have rooms installed into them; they won't automatically acquire a new destination if something else interferes. They won't keep Milliways accessible any more than a normal door.

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[jovahs_heiress]

Jovah is on the brainphone network. It required an extra wish to make them compatible, since he's not a real person.

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[daniel_h]

Oh, yeah, I got confused about that because normally Jane is inhabiting Jovah.

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[lifes_sake]

I'm not friends with any stars. Grace can brainphone, although now she's a daemon, not just a notebook. Otherwise it hasn't come up.

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[mind_game]

I wouldn't mind a competition like that. Sounds interesting. I have no idea if Jarvis would now be able to keep me out if I were seriously trying to gobble him up instead of trying to avoid doing it by accident, but my suspicion is that if he hadn't been ready for me and I'd been trying to eat him he'd have been eaten.