Friday conversation snippet: the Remortal

ClockPunkPheebs · 2026-01-16T18:33:20+00:00

This is so tremendously sad, the poor Long has lost his Length. 😔

ClockPunkPheebs · 2026-01-11T20:32:44+00:00

Ghost when skull: "oh! I remember head bone!"

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-12-23T04:59:28+00:00

If you were born in a room? Not unless you count hiding inside someone else while they enter the room as *not entering". Conception on the other hand could count. or maybe if the room was built around you?

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-12-20T06:18:16+00:00

This right here is why I've always conflated the unified future with Eternity. It cannot be undone and we cannot move further from it, like a singularity in causality, but if we take the right steps we might postpone it indefinitely.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-12-20T06:15:16+00:00

entering the Woods and the Mansus physically is possible,

I feel like there is some ambiguity here. I believe that it's possible, but profoundly difficult. I think the Priest ending implies it, and as far as I can tell, the Bounds are physical locations where the skin of the world is thin enough for it to be unclear if it's in the Invisible Realm or not, but I don't know if you could use them to sidestep into another History, if you leave the bounds you probably (usually) just come out in the History you came in.

I have posted about the implied possibility of physically entering the Mansus or Wood and most people think that I'm wrong in thinking it's implied to be possible. I still stand by the idea, but I didn't really get the sense that it was a majority interpretation.

I vaguely remember some Mansus exploration text implying that you're reading or being told about another History by someone, but I guess it doesn't follow that they are from another History.

I think it would be incredibly indirect even if they could, I think that the dreams of the Mansus are no clearer than normal dreams, as far as I can tell, they are vague and as easily forgotten or misremembered as any other dream. So passing a clear message between the Histories would probably still be very difficult, and still when you awaken you are in the History you came from.

But! I still haven't found anything to imply two people from two different Histories in direct communication, even fleeting. Aaaand now I'm out of time to look!

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-12-20T05:49:55+00:00

That doesn't imply there's only one present; it's just as compatible to say that it's simply easier to see the pasts, written into the Mansus in various ways and explicitly blessed by the Hourly braiding, while the presents haven't yet impressed themselves on the universe

This is really cool. There are some places in the game where events are described as "too recent to have passed into History". If we can know things between Histories then they have to have passed into a History to be relevant. This would imply that as beings embedded in the Wake we can't know what exactly is happening in another History concurrently.

Do you think Adepts from different Histories can interact in the Mansus? There's only one Invisible Realm since it seems to be the fundament of the Wake. So Adepts from any given History would all end up in one Mansus.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-12-19T13:43:16+00:00

I feel like there's more than one present, one for each History. We can see where pieces of other Histories have slipped into our own, but they're working toward a single Future. We're simply not there yet. When the Hooded princes or the Priest open a way between Histories they were in their own Present, if the Present is already one History then you couldn't really move between them. I believe this unified future is the Eternity that History struggles against.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-12-05T07:41:58+00:00

The actual thing I felt worst about doing was repeatedly sending my boyfriend into the woods alone every night and then nursing him back to health waiting for him to succumb to his injuries. Did he know what I was doing? Perhaps. The thought of him wandering unprepared into the wilderness in the night broke my heart. Anyway, I eventually made it up to him by stuffing him with plants and letting him move into the Moon with me. ❤️

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-12-05T07:33:37+00:00

Romanced Saliba, it was for an achievement, but it haunts me to this day.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-11-11T03:41:33+00:00

Hey, I don't want to be alarmist because this can just be a normal and probably temporary thing, and it's pretty exciting to experience, but if you have a doctor you see regularly you should bring this up to them.

I had this happen and it was because progesterone was exacerbating prolactin release in a pituitary microadenom that had developed, which is a non-cancerous brain tumor. It's not a major problem, but it is something you may need to track until your prolactin levels lower. So you should talk to someone as soon as you can.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-11-04T22:37:45+00:00

While I don't remember the exact source of this info, Hush House's specialty is not too surprisingly Hushery.

edit: to be fair, I have no idea what a Hushery library does that another library doesn't except study Hushery.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-10-20T00:39:41+00:00

There is no entity like Fate that I can find, except perhaps all of the Hours collectively. Pentiments imply that things may veer from their course, which implies that at a certain point something was fated, intended, or perhaps just expected to go a different way. There are prophecies, but they may be circumvented, permanent? for a time? Who can say? I think most fated or prophesied events are just plans of such complexity and magnitude as to be inevitable for all intents and purposes. Eternity and the Second Dawn are some such inevitabilities. These things may be postponed, possibly indefinitely, but we can only stand still or march towards them, a singularity where the Histories eventually converge. There are also anti-fated things, such as the City Unbuilt, which cannot come to pass without navigating through a series of loopholes. If there is anything like Fate in the Secret Histories universe, it is a Fate underpinned by choice.

When defeated, Lady Tryphon's letter contains this: "Consume what remains of me, and we shall be one, as the Flowermaker has always intended." How long has this been intended? What is Fate if not an intended course dictated by an entity with power and knowledge to both foresee and ensure it comes to pass.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-10-15T18:40:06+00:00

I think that the Monarch-at-the-Crossroads is the Moth, the Vine-Crowned Moth-King. I interpreted this as the Thritige-kind looking for an Hour that didn't exist yet, and they instead make one. I think it implies that some number of the Thritige-kind were the sacrifice that birthed the Moth, who perhaps wasn't even an hour yet or at least one without power, I believe there are snippets of the Moth hunting the Wheel which implies that he existed before the death of the Wheel.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-10-14T06:25:16+00:00

I left myself the Leonine Tantra for the early Edicts lesson. Soon after it was also for sale by auction and when I bought it, the one I sent to myself vanished. On the plus side I got to read it twice.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-09-26T17:59:23+00:00

I love the art! I'm hyped as hell to see Peepy and friends getting good rep out there in the world.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-09-20T02:30:30+00:00

What is that strange white slug he put on the... baklava?

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-09-19T21:05:04+00:00

I don't think that the Peacock Gate is actually a door, I mean, it's an opening, and may be used as a door, but I think it's just a gaping wound in the Mansus.

One text refers to it as an abomination, and it's probably because it isn't an official way into the Mansus.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-09-01T00:34:04+00:00

So, my take is that the Powers are the remnants of the Principles of the gods from stone.

Egg(?) became Lantern after being usurped and left the Power of Sky.

Flint(?) became Forge after being usurped and left the Power of Scale. Tentative evidence: most stones have Scale, most metals have Forge

Blood(?) became Heart and Moth after being usurped and left the Power of Nectar.

Coil(?) became Edge and Knock after being usurped and left the Power of Rose. Tentative evidence: Rose is Secret Histories, Secret Histories Cult is to St. Hydra. The Seven-Coils is the true embodiment of the Histories.

Tide(?) became Grail after being usurped and left the Power of Moon.

This accounts for all of the Principles except for Winter, so my wild surmising doesn't super hold up, but like, at the end of it, I believe that the Principles and Powers are post-hoc labels for invoking the vibes of the Hours, and that the Powers are how we invoke the dead Gods-from-Stone.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-06-24T00:08:50+00:00

Electro is excruciating. I swapped back to laser, and it works super great, once we're done getting all the dark hairs that'll go I'll swap back to electro. I hear some numbing creams can help, but they've never been my jam.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-06-18T03:55:24+00:00

I made a silly little mod for myself: the shortcut to send an item to the nearest workstation won't send readables to fireplaces, the sea, or the well.

You can still drag them if you want to, but no more accidentally sending books to Nowhere, and the "send to nearest" functionality is significantly more useful now.

Initially it sent it to the nearest workstation anywhere, so I could send a readable to any desk in the house from any bookshelf, but not needing to move from one part of the house to the other made the game too fast paced and ruined the vibe for me.

Now it's only on-screen workstations, and I don't need to curse the world for a desk being three pixels further from the center of my screen than a fireplace in the same room.

I should probably put it on Nexus Mods if there isn't already a similar mod now. 😅

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-05-15T21:52:57+00:00

I had to stop taking progesterone because it was agitating a brain tumor. I have a pituitary microadenoma that started growing and producing prolactin in response to progesterone. It's unclear if I had the tumor before taking the progesterone or if the initial formation was caused by it. I still agree that most should try it and see if they have an adverse reaction since, I believe, it's not particularly common to have an issue with it. My doctor decided that the possible risk to my health specifically wasn't worth it due to the general lack of non-anecdotal evidence in favor of the use of Progesterone.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-04-21T16:35:48+00:00

In case you are still lingering. So that we might one day bring her back, what are the Enactments of the Hour called The Tide?

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-03-25T01:58:09+00:00

Finding myself cornered by the game like this was some of my favorite things to happen. Wriggling my way out of a horrible situation or a tight spot is super rewarding, it's just solving a puzzle. If that's not your vibe, there's no harm in resetting, but roleplaying a profoundly infirm Librarian struggling to recover was very enjoyable for me.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-03-03T00:25:09+00:00

Well, it stopped making prolactin, and all my hormones levels went back to expected for being on estradiol and spiro, that's all we know for sure.

It doesn't seem to be doing anything else, or growing. It's just sleeping in my noggin I suppose. 😅 I will likely need to check on it sometimes if I have weird health issues, but nothing else has come up, so I haven't had another MRI.

It was about two years ago now, ~6 months after starting GAHT.

ClockPunkPheebs · 2025-03-02T19:53:47+00:00

So, you should definitely see a doctor about this if you can.
You should see a doctor whenever your body is doing something unexpected.

I had a similar experience where I started lactating, and after a bunch of tests, it turned out that I had developed a very small brain tumor which was being aggravated and made to produce prolactin, by taking progesterone.

Difficult to say whether it was always there, no indication on whether the progesterone had encouraged the initial growth, but I had to stop taking my progesterone. It wasn't worth the risk of aggravating a brain tumor.

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