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Re: The Chronicles of Quelouva
Posted By: scratskinnerDate: 10/7/17 12:53 p.m.

In Response To: Re: The Chronicles of Quelouva (Forrest of B.org)

: I noted the part when Oron freezes and drops out of communication to Pantheon
: Exodus.

I see it has replaced the bit where he won't talk because he felt his opinion was demonstrably unhelpful. I feel that bit ought to be preserved, as it's a nice bit of character development. Perhaps you could have someone earlier on having worried the freezing thing happened, and being met with "No, I ain't frozen solid. Yet. I just don't want to make things worse by opening my fool mouth again." It could even be that being involved in planetside affairs was helping keep him conscious, and once that stopped...

: I noted why Thomas was looking for the Gem of Fire in Meantime of the
: Darklight.

It occurs to me that someone might wonder why he didn't entrust it to the elves, and that there are quite a few reasons not: it was the Elf King's idea to hide the Gems in caves, and Tom/Sue aren't supposed to know; the elves are likely to protect the Gem as well as the cave would, that is, only up till it's found; he didn't actually know where the elves were hanging out; he doesn't have a lead-lined box or whatever to safely transport the Gem to the elves, cause it's not like they're going to come get it themselves.

It also occurs to me to wonder whether he tried getting some wizard to come on an "innocent" hike with him, thus framing it as a harmless diversion rather than a perilous enterprise that might not be worth their effort, and shoving their hands onto the Gem at the first opportunity. (Why would he need an expedition, after all?)

: That's a good catch. My first thought was "well, Vis doesn't necessarily
: know the Church's doctrine", but if she and her vampires have
: infiltrated Chalmany so thoroughly, then she probably has.

: My next thought is that there's a detail of the game Fire and Ice set up
: that's not part of the Church doctrine, and that even Tom and Sue wouldn't
: have known about as eye witnesses to the old Queen. The reborn Queen is
: not just an Old One, she is an all new being with all the powers of both
: elves and vampires and none of their weaknesses. The old Queen that Tom
: and Sue knew was a psycho hell bitch, but no more powerful than anyone
: else around, so she caused everyone a lot of headaches but wasn't a
: world-ending disaster. The reborn Queen after the goddesses' cruel game is
: much more dangerous.

: So I guess my earlier statements that Tom and Sue would have known better are
: wrong. They might still have thought better, having remembered the Queen
: themselves and not thought that she would be of any help, while maybe Vis
: just thinks "okay so this person was a dick to everyone in her last
: life, but I'll be her new mom, and I'll be superpowerful with both Gems,
: so I'll be able to control her, and she'll know something about the Eldest
: and be able to help fix this whole mess" but nope, didn't work out
: that way.

That's a good save. And even Tom in full possession of his memories wouldn't have known that her crazy had already survived multiple suicides.

If you haven't already, you should probably note this when Murdock arrives at Vis' castle. (I think, maybe, that there's another knowable reason to not bring back the Queen of Hell, and this might come after Vis has already answered Murdock's objection of "the Eldest's love was nuts!", cut off before he can fully voice it by Vis declaring she's explained herself to the extent she feels necessary, and that everything's gonna be just fine. But that's a maybe.)

Wonder how things would have fallen apart if she had been (kinda) right. Has Vis considered that the Queen of Hell might not have the memories of her old life readily available due to the typical effects of reincarnation? (Given her heavy infiltration of Chalmony, she might be prepared to do dream analysis.) And even with memories intact... How varied are the ways in which Vis might be disastrously misled by the Queen of Hell?

Come to think of it, given that the ice/fire goddesses thought to have safeguards in their gems against someone using their own power against them, seems a bit odd they went the whole "yes this will make you a superbeing" route. Of course, perhaps they were counting on her losing her memory to rebirth, and hence her knowledge of the Sword of Darklight and how to get back at them. And the Gems, apparently, safeguard only against their own type... how active are the goddesses in mortal affairs? It would be ironic, and a nice hint of the limits on their foresight, if one or both of them'd been overthrown (by the bearer of the opposing gem) long before the Queen of Hell took aim at their respective houses.

: I'm a little unclear on what you're asking here, but if it helps answer it, I
: was imagining that all dreams anyone has in their corrupted forms are
: actually memories of their past lives. There's no such thing as ordinary
: dreams anymore, but the jumbled mess of memories from different lives are
: so absurd and random that they're thought of the same way we think of real
: dreams.

I think there's a jumble of questions I'm asking here.

One part:
Tom and Sue are pretty famous, right? How often do people show up saying they think they are the next incarnation? (It's not like that kind of thing is unheard of in the real world..) And how much is known about them, and how was it discovered? (If Tom'd had a diary or anything, he would have directed his followers to that, not to Sue.) How many facts of Tom or Sue's life would you need to get right before the Church could not prove you were not Tom or Sue?

another part is:
How does the Church distinguish fact from fiction when analyzing dreams? How much do they have to rely on secondhand accounts, and how reliable are these accounts? When there's a contradiction between what is recorded and what someone has dreamed, how is it resolved? do they correct the historical record or decide the dreamer is not who they thought? (in either sense)

And another:
How are dream analyses carried out? Are they simple "tell me about your dreams" affairs? is there hypnosis involved? or do they have a doohickey to hook up to your brain and copy'n'paste? that last precludes someone just making up their dreams to match what they want the analyst to believe. You'd need the doohickey operator(s) to be colluding in your deception.

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                                                                                                                                                                                   Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 2General-RADIX 11/18/17 6:37 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                                         Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 2Forrest of B.org 11/20/17 10:40 a.m.
                                                                                                                                                                                               Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 2General-RADIX 11/20/17 1:51 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                 Virtuality Immanent: Part 3Forrest of B.org 11/16/17 9:57 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                       Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 3scratskinner 11/17/17 12:38 a.m.
                                                                                                                                                                       Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 3General-RADIX 11/17/17 7:15 a.m.
                                                                                                                                                                       Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 3VikingBoyBilly 11/17/17 12:35 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                             Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 3Forrest of B.org 11/17/17 3:23 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                                   Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 3VikingBoyBilly 11/17/17 6:06 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                                         Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 3Forrest of B.org 11/17/17 10:05 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                       Re: Virtuality Immanent: Part 3nevets01 11/17/17 12:46 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                       The Chronicles of Quelouva are DONE! (ish)Forrest of B.org 12/29/17 8:31 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                             Re: The Chronicles of Quelouva are DONE! (ish)General-RADIX 12/30/17 1:47 a.m.
     some random thoughtsscratskinner 9/9/17 12:29 a.m.
           Re: some random thoughtsForrest of B.org 9/9/17 8:40 a.m.
                 Re: some random thoughtsscratskinner 9/10/17 2:19 a.m.
                       Re: some random thoughtsForrest of B.org 9/11/17 9:35 a.m.
                             Re: some random thoughtsscratskinner 9/12/17 5:14 p.m.
                                   Re: some random thoughtsForrest of B.org 9/12/17 6:24 p.m.
                                         Re: some random thoughtsscratskinner 9/14/17 7:53 p.m.
                                               Re: some random thoughtsForrest of B.org 9/14/17 10:13 p.m.
                                                     Re: some random thoughtsscratskinner 9/16/17 11:01 a.m.
                                                           Re: some random thoughtsForrest of B.org 9/16/17 2:56 p.m.
                                                                 Re: some random thoughtsscratskinner 9/17/17 12:13 p.m.
                                                                       Re: some random thoughtsForrest of B.org 9/18/17 8:10 a.m.
                             Re: some random thoughts 2bscratskinner 9/16/17 9:12 a.m.
                                   Re: some random thoughts 2bForrest of B.org 9/16/17 2:58 p.m.
                                         Re: some random thoughts 2bscratskinner 9/17/17 12:31 p.m.
                                               Re: some random thoughts 2bForrest of B.org 9/18/17 7:41 a.m.
           Re: some random thoughtsForrest of B.org 9/11/17 3:37 p.m.
           Re: some random thoughtsForrest of B.org 9/14/17 1:55 p.m.
     Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaGeneral-RADIX 9/11/17 8:02 p.m.
     Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 9/28/17 9:43 p.m.
           Re: The Chronicles of Quelouvascratskinner 9/30/17 1:11 a.m.
                 Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 10/2/17 9:56 a.m.
                       Re: The Chronicles of Quelouvascratskinner 10/7/17 12:53 p.m.
                             Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 10/9/17 3:14 p.m.
                                   Re: The Chronicles of Quelouvascratskinner 10/17/17 6:38 p.m.
                                         Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 10/17/17 8:23 p.m.
     Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaTycho 10/22/17 4:14 p.m.
           Re: The Chronicles of Quelouvanevets01 10/23/17 7:42 a.m.
           Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 10/23/17 10:41 a.m.
     Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 10/26/17 10:49 p.m.
           Re: The Chronicles of Quelouvascratskinner 10/27/17 1:34 a.m.
                 Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 10/27/17 8:32 a.m.
     Re: Virtuality Transcendent: Part 3 *MOVED*scratskinner 11/9/17 10:50 p.m.
           Re: Virtuality Transcendent: Part 3 *MOVED*Forrest of B.org 11/10/17 8:39 a.m.
                 Re: Virtuality Transcendent: Part 3 *MOVED*scratskinner 12/21/17 12:48 p.m.
                       noticed you've updated while doing some factchecksscratskinner 12/21/17 2:26 p.m.
                       Re: Virtuality Transcendent: Part 3 *MOVED*Forrest of B.org 12/21/17 3:48 p.m.
     Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 11/22/17 12:18 p.m.
           Future Perfect expandedForrest of B.org 11/29/17 10:00 p.m.
     Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 12/7/17 9:30 a.m.
           Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaGeneral-RADIX 12/7/17 9:43 a.m.
                 Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 12/7/17 10:24 a.m.
                       Re: The Chronicles of Quelouvascratskinner 12/8/17 7:22 p.m.
                             Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 12/9/17 8:19 a.m.
                                   Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 12/13/17 9:10 a.m.
                                         Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaGeneral-RADIX 12/13/17 3:18 p.m.
                                         Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaYossarian 12/15/17 9:58 p.m.
                                         Re: The Chronicles of Quelouvascratskinner 12/16/17 1:22 p.m.
                                               Re: The Chronicles of QuelouvaForrest of B.org 12/18/17 12:56 p.m.

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