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  • I think there’s a valley between uncomprehending magic and comprehending magic. Its actually a central theme in one of my favorite novels.

    I think more (but less shitty) education is the solution here. Or de-extincting early hominid super predators so they can manage the stock market and have seizures. Whichever.

    Edit: the novel is ‘echopraxia’, sequel to the academic-citations-in-the-back-of-the-book-hard-sci-fi ‘blindsight’. Do not read them out of order. ‘Blindsight’ is better composed, and much better as cosmic horror. ‘Echopraxia’ leans self consciously into the romantic origin and impulse of good cyberpunk-major characters include: self aware dr. Frankenstein, a hive-mind of posthuman monks who think they’ve found god, a post-government spook who literally snorts love, and an absurdly witchy vampire with a zombie army. It remains far enough up the scale of scifi hardness to cite sources you’ll have to go through scihub to check. Central themes include the limits of different ways of knowing, and the blurring of love/horror.




  • Splitting the party is fine! Here’s some great reasons why you might:

    If you get in through the servants entrance, you’re gonna have access to different stuff than if you get in through the front door.

    You have the most wanted woman im the country and an anthropomorphized war crime in the party, and you’ve decided you need to ask a duchess about a thing.

    The tunnel splits, and you’re not about to allow that fucker to get behind you. Again.

    I don’t trust these other fuckers. I spy on the rest of the party.

    You fucked up and only got one invitation. Hopefully they can open a back door somewhere.

    He actually can’t take the armor off. It’s a whole thing. He can be the distraction.

    The rest of the party moves 3x as fast as me and has stealth nonsense. But I have points in siege engineering, and resistance to fall damage. Shout when you need me.