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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Questions for Bar

[daniel_h]

(these are categorized separately from the questions for Greens because that worked better with the organization scheme in my head)

You can sell arbitrary (nonliving nonmagical nonweapon) things. Can you also buy arbitrary (nonliving nonmagical) things, or only things that are used as a currency somewhere? What about buying weapons?

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You have some exceptions for the "nonliving" clause for things like yogurt. How far does that extend? Could you make maggot cheese or gagh? A houseplant that somebody was going to actually take care of (you refused to make one which would be immediately sacrificed, but that sounded more like policy than inability)? What about microbes as part of some nonfood thing, as long as they were not microbes likely to cause diseases?

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Why can't people order poisonous substances for use other than poison? Presumably you can make belladonna, and would serve it to somebody with a nonhuman biology. Presumably the clothes you gave Shell Bell are not edible. You'd probably even serve a standard human a whole apple complete with seeds, or even apple seeds directly if the customer was going to plant them. Why can't Amariah get spell components?

Re: Questions for Bar

[alicornucopia]

I can buy things - including weapons - effectively at my own discretion.

I am generally able to make exceptions to my rules when they result in items generally understood in their home contexts to be potable or comestible. I sometimes make other exceptions as for houseplants, especially if this is some kind of unavoidable necessity for a patron. Microbes are usually allowable if they are safe.

There is some discretion available in the case of poisons too. In the home context of witch spell components it is not unheard of for them to be used deliberately as poison.