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Alice Grove MCDLT - THE END...?
WareWolf:
Today's xkcd seems relevant:
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 10 Jul 2017, 22:16 ---
This. So much this. This comic is like the 'Sedna bone knife' thing, only instead of weakening a dramatic moment, it is really kind of killing the whole ending. There are... What, 11 comics left? 12? 10? About a dozen. This should be the strongest part of the story, (Well, this and the introduction,) and yet it's just throwing bad twists and curveballs in the audience that I really, really doubt can be satisfiable tied up by the end, and that for the most part make the rest of the story irrelevant. If she can ignore the laws of physics, why doesn't she just... I dunno, jump into space to talk to the Praeses herself? Would that really be so difficult? She can apparently move around in a vacuum just fine, and would survive re-entry, so...
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It's strongly implied that violation of the rules (like all Magick) comes with a price, and violation on that scale might well be a price Alice is reluctant, if not totally unwilling, to pay. Not sure what the price is. Fraying of reality, maybe?
pwhodges:
I expect we will be told or shown the price shortly.
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 11 Jul 2017, 05:11 ---I expect we will be told or shown the price shortly.
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It might be the secret to Church's power. He's willing to incur a higher entropic debt for less justification. Still doesn't explain why he didn't just magic himself out of the lava encasement.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: WareWolf on 11 Jul 2017, 05:57 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 11 Jul 2017, 05:11 ---I expect we will be told or shown the price shortly.
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It might be the secret to Church's power. He's willing to incur a higher entropic debt for less justification. Still doesn't explain why he didn't just magic himself out of the lava encasement.
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There may be an upper end to the amount of energy one can dump into the entropy sink in one time and, therefore, an upper end to the amount of energy one can use without it causing catastrophic damage to one's body's cellular structure.
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