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[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").

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Resurrections

[rockeye_stonetoe]

Anybell who has gotten around to mass resurrections, have you bumped any interesting historical figures in the queue? Even relatively recent ones, like Norman Borlaug, who died a few years ago in my Earth? What reasons do you typically have for bumping people in the queue, aside from specific requests via friends and family?

A while ago someone concocted an elaborate fight scenario for Golden that she found terribly un-clever. I'll try not to do that here, but I want to know the kind of things Pattern might have done if she DID find something interesting in Forks.

Pattern, what would you have done if, about a week after arriving in Forks, you were in the woods for some reason and an alien spacecraft crashed near you, plus one dead humanoid but obviously not human alien? The spaceship contained recognizable features like an airlock and cockpit, was still mostly in once piece including non-secured (no password) computers in alien language, was easily entered, and crashed in a location that is not easily locable unless you saw it go down, and was about the size of a trailer home. No strange stories about UFOs or space objects appeared in the previous or subsequent weeks.

Re: Resurrections

[bellfounding]

I haven't bumped famous people just for being famous. I figure that famous people will want to wake up to family and friends like anybody else, so I wait for someone to request them for personal reasons and demonstrate that there's someplace for them to go (even if that's "I'm pretty sure Grandma would be happy to live on Saturn"). But the famous are pretty easy to check for benign status, so there's that; Norman Borlaug and his wife went home with a couple of their kids years ago in my world. I shook his hand.

I'd buy a big chest freezer and a generator - or maybe just dry ice and a box, I'm not sure which would turn out to be cheaper, it'd depend on how much fuel the generator would eat keeping the freezer going - and haul them out to keep the body frozen with a view to eventually getting a good look at it with more sophisticated tools and more information, and then do my best to find the alien equivalent of a calculator app, learn the numbers, and go from there on figuring out how to read the contents of the computer. Plus checking out what else there was in there.