A very odd question

Do you think Polythreme makes contact lenses?

…would you wear them?

What if they came in every different color?
edited by Addis Rook on 9/13/2017

I don’t think they make contact lenses, but if you want living lenses, just bring some there.

So I looked it up, it appears contact lenses were invented in 1888 in Germany so it’s historically possible for them to appear in Fallen London.

Could they decide to make you see something different when you look through them? I don’t know the limits of the anima that Polythreme grants items.

I mean clearly, they could jump up and walk off if they wanted to. And they could probably wiggle around. So they could make your vision look like a funhouse mirror. Or, if they were being cooperative, they could adjust their correction while being worn. But could they show you a movie? Could they tell you a story? I have no idea!

All right, now I would like some Polythreme sentient contact lenses. Fantastic suggestion!

You have obviously never gotten in a fight with your knickers.

Contacts might exist in London. I am fairly certain they would not exist in Polythreme. As a rule, Polythreme’s technological level belongs to a rather different era than London’s. Now, if you brought contacts into Polythreme, as mentioned above, then they would likely begin to get feisty, but that feistiness would die out as you left the city. Only things permanently infused with Polythreme’s [redacted] retain their animation beyond the Sea of Voices.

You have obviously never gotten in a fight with your knickers.

Contacts might exist in London. I am fairly certain they would not exist in Polythreme. As a rule, Polythreme’s technological level belongs to a rather different era than London’s. Now, if you brought contacts into Polythreme, as mentioned above, then they would likely begin to get feisty, but that feistiness would die out as you left the city. Only things permanently infused with Polythreme’s [redacted] retain their animation beyond the Sea of Voices.[/quote]

Given that’s true, I have to wonder - why do the Unfinished Hat, Moderately-Cooperative Clothes Colony, and the Clothhes Colony which poses as a Tomb-Colonist in Sunless Sea survive after leaving Polythreme? In the former cases, it’s presumably &quotBecause they’re items&quot, but the case of the &quotTomb-Colonist&quot does seem to indicate an exception of some kind.

The Unfinished Hat story makes clear that at least some Clay Men can transfer their animation into other objects, presumably in a similar fashion to the way it was first imputed to them. A certain set of knives provides another example of some kind of sentience (admittedly very different from the usual high-kicking furniture of Polythreme) being imputed into other items, and being recognizable by a Clay Man. Whether the clothes-colonies have been similarly created by Clay Men, or whether permanent sentience can be absorbed, as it were, over long enough exposure to Polythreme, is unknown.

It is known, however, that the influence of Polythreme extends at least to Grunting Fen, and presumably throughout the Sea of Voices.

[quote=Addis Rook]Do you think Polythreme makes contact lenses?

…would you wear them?[/quote]

If the would provide me with night-vision and or/IR view on demand (well, on asking nicely), definitely! Even if the would be temperamental and had a preferences for certain types of drinks (moisturizing agent) only.

There is only one response to this question…

eye damage.