Talk To Glowfic Characters

[alicornucopia]

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").

Any glowfic author may use this thread to receive questions.

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Lots of Questions

[daniel_h]

I had some questions I came up with during the Effulgence Mafia game. I didn’t want to actually ask them here because I came up with them for reasons relating to the game. Now I have a giant backlog because I never got around to posting them and instead just kept adding to the backlog. Would you prefer I post my giant backlog all at once?

My questions that I deliberately didn’t post during that game were:

Chelsa, suppose you could live on a small planet with only yourself, Amdon, a bunch of other people very similar to yourself and Amdon but with different histories, and some other people that all knew about your kindling in advance and agreed to live there with you. You would be unable to kindle or douse anybody who did not explicitly agree to this and live on the planet with you, but everybody you could easily talk to would be fully kindled for each other. Would you want to live there? How many other copies of yourself-and-Amdon would there need to be on that planet to make you want that?

Chelise and Chelsa, did you have any cousins? Chelsa, the one I’m thinking of would probably have something like your kindling and dousing, but they would kindle hatred instead of love. Chelise, I’m also curious if you had any friends with a name like “Afton” or “Amdon” or something.

Re: Lots of Questions

[warmfeelings]

That wouldn't be as nice as having all the billions of people from back home love me, but I bet some of those people would agree to follow me there. I guess it would be about as nice a place to curl up and slowly die as this little island I'm living on now.

I had a cousin like that once.

Re: Lots of Questions

[daniel_h]

Have you had any symptoms since moving to the island? If you continue not to have symptoms for years, at what point would you consider it might have been a false alarm?

Re: Lots of Questions

[warmfeelings]

No, none since, but I know it wasn't nothing. I felt it.

Re: Lots of Questions

[close_knit]

[Chelise] No, no cousins, no Aftons.