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").

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Comments

[daniel_h]

Stella, upon having ready access to stars via Alice:

If you were to learn that the key to using stars safely is one of those obvious-in-retrospect things, what ideas would you have on what makes stars safe? If you were further to learn that the correct hypothesis comes with a safe experiment, so it could be tested without potentially losing half your body, what ideas would you test? Finally, what if you were to learn that coming up with the safety procedure did not require actually knowing why high-value coins were dangerous, and the “why” is a lot less obvious than the “how to get around it”?

Also, can you pentagon expertise in wishcoins-in-general? Since pentagons give information, even if they aren’t that good at it in many cases, it seems like you might want to try that. Stars would be useful.

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Stella, after learning (via Lazarus) that an amount of magic equal to the previous coin’s value goes to something (maybe futility-related) other than the wish:

Same questions (except the last, which I expect to have the same answer).

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Lazarus, no particular time as long as he knows the declawing secret:

When a coin is declawed, does it then have more magic available for the actual wish, or does the magic that would have been destructive just go away? Also, it seems like large coins have more than ten times the power of the next-largest coin; about how much more powerful are they?

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Glass, can you see if you’re likely to run into any alts of Lazarus who are some form of bird? Can you tell that this is actually a potentially metacausally interesting question, and if so can you see anything about why it is?

[[I ask because so far they all use the same account, and having a bird screennamed nonbird would be odd]]

[thaumobabble]

Stella is not available to answer your questions because hindsight bias is a hell of a thing even for authors.

Lazarus looks reasonably likely to turn up as some form of bird if we find a species of bird people otherwise compatible with Lazarosity. Now that you mention it, there is a minor air of bird theme to him.