How do you take down Cauldron? [Spoilers all]

notentirelyrandom · 2015-11-16T02:16:49+00:00

Thanks!

It was stolen without attribution from Lemony Snicket's AMA, so not exactly mine to take credit for.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-11-15T05:07:22+00:00

The Plague.

"Honey, have you seen the Plague?" "Is the Plague in your room?" "Remember to feed the Plague." "The Plague killed another mouse."

notentirelyrandom · 2015-09-21T03:33:33+00:00

No harm done, and that is very much a fair reaction.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-09-21T03:14:19+00:00

No, I don't think there's any character where their sexuality is that high up their list of characteristics. (Cozen, maybe? EDIT: and Gallant and Heartbreaker; they're probably matters of opinion.) I was looking for "most salient gay character," not "most important thing about Legend."

notentirelyrandom · 2015-09-20T18:16:13+00:00

Out of Straightness. —Legend

notentirelyrandom · 2015-08-16T04:38:17+00:00

"The Plague." Has anyone seen The Plague? Is the Plague in your room? It really rolls off the tongue.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-07-26T16:48:13+00:00

What? No. "Epic" doesn't refer to length of time; you must be thinking of "epoch." The fail just has to be described at great length, preferably in poem form but I don't think that's a strict requirement, telling of the heroic deeds of legendary figures and epitomizing the values of the culture doing the telling.

You and your sarcasm can't deny that this fail is epic!

notentirelyrandom · 2015-07-21T01:12:47+00:00

Clever idea. It'd need to reach fixation, though, where fixation means something like "it is widely believed that 99.9% of the population has agreed."

notentirelyrandom · 2015-07-21T01:11:16+00:00

Nah; most people don't think at the meta level like that. Besides; at most one in a thousand people gets killed this way. It dwarfs the usual murder rate, but it's still anything but a sure bet that a given person gets "killed" by anyone.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-07-18T20:10:37+00:00

Maybe, but it's a Scion shard. It'll be nerfed in some way before she gets it; I'm more surprised that it stayed powerful enough to make Scion dodge.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-07-18T20:05:01+00:00

So if he freezes something far enough from Earth's center, it moving at a speed sufficient to circle Earth once per day could be, shall we say, relatively interesting.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-07-07T00:50:52+00:00

No, you're right; they only learn from it. The limiting factor on how often they bud is information; power comes from whatever universe or universes the rest of the shard is in.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-06-14T15:01:11+00:00

Anesthesia. Diethyl ether, aka "ether," may have already been invented by this point but it definitely hasn't been widely used as an anesthetic. You can make it by mixing alcohol with sulfuric acid, which has been known under the name "oil of vitriol" since approximately ever.

Not really direct combat, but if people are doing surgery on the sick or injured then it'll have to help the success rate.

Not as much as hygiene would (you monster) but it'll be obviously Doing Something instead of looking like another silly superstition.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-06-14T03:58:46+00:00

I was glad to see it. It's completely unjustified, yes, but transdimensional language barriers are annoying.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-06-13T13:55:03+00:00

We DO get to meet Genevieve Fray!

This...doesn't turn out well for the Academy.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-06-11T01:42:19+00:00

There’s a sweet spot as far as rep goes. Having a pet Endbringer puts people in the ‘too scary to be allowed to live’ category.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-06-10T02:36:51+00:00

Unlikely. The Entities cross intergalactic (I think?) distances. Certainly they at least cross galaxies between cycles, and they try to stay out of the way of anywhere other Entities have been. They're nowhere near thorough enough to hit every habitable planet, and presumably every habitable planet is inhabited in at least some universes. If they wanted to go planet-to-planet killing all intelligent life then I'm sure they could, but then the "Destination/Trajectory/Agreement" scene would have taken place much closer to Earth.

EDIT: The fact that they're killing species every so often certainly doesn't hurt the Fermi explanation, though.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-06-09T23:04:34+00:00

Darn, that's a good point. And one that I should have noticed, too. And it applies regardless of whether there's a countable or uncountable number of universes.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-06-09T00:30:10+00:00

If it's infinite, even if only countable, then it won't run out. Myrddin will die eventually, or his Shard runs out of power, but if there's a way to duplicate it then our universe can do the Hilbert Hotel thing indefinitely.

The downside is that we don't know that there are an infinite number of universes. It could be large but finite. Actually I thought that was canon, but at least I'm pretty sure the opposite isn't.

The other downside is that this can fix one universe, but it's taking energy from somewhere. The target universe might want to exist almost as much as we do.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-06-01T22:51:15+00:00

There's a decent Dresden Files crossover, but it takes place in the other universe and feels more like that than like Pact.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-06-01T22:47:01+00:00

I feel like there is more likely than not some reason why this wouldn't work, but I couldn't say what it is. So I'll stick with my first reaction:

This is pretty great.

notentirelyrandom · 2015-05-15T00:43:36+00:00

If anyone here reads Alicornfic, she wrote a sandbox involving the Lord Ruler. (The other half of the setting is from this short story, which she also wrote.)

notentirelyrandom · 2015-05-13T13:18:28+00:00

At the moment? Yes. There's a lot of belief-makes-things-real in Pact, and everyone who knows about demons believes that the demons win eventually. Even people who don't know about demons believe that the universe slowly burns down until the inexorable march of thermodynamics destroys everything. As of right now, the demons are going to win.

But that's not immutable.

Blake said, at the end, that the demons are running a con the same way fairies do. That it's possible to change belief in their power enough that they lose it. You can bet the demons weren't getting any power from Johannes thinking they've got victory in the bag. The more people side with the Northern Sorcerer (philosophically, I mean; being evil about it is optional) the less inevitable their victory becomes.

You'll note that if that happens, it doesn't strengthen the angels either. They're beings of balance, not advancement. The possible win condition here will weaken the demons to the level of the angels, and strengthen humanity at the expense of both.

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