How does a Blind Person receive the “punishment” one receives while reading the Correspondence?
Normally one’s eyes would begin to tear and their hair lights ablaze.
Would for a blind person reading it in a Braille Form (tracing the outlines and “reading” it that way) the effect be any different? Setting their arm hair ablaze for example or burning their fingers.
[quote=Honeyaddict]How does a Blind Person receive the "punishment" one receives while reading the Correspondence?
Normally one’s eyes would begin to tear and their hair lights ablaze.
Would for a blind person reading it in a Braille Form (tracing the outlines and "reading" it that way) the effect be any different? Setting their arm hair ablaze for example or burning their fingers.[/quote]
If it were possible to render the Correspondence in braille, or simply in a raised for able to be read by touch, the substance on which the symbols were written would start to burn if you wrote more than 6 characters of it.
[quote=Catherine Raymond]
If it were possible to render the Correspondence in braille, or simply in a raised for able to be read by touch, the substance on which the symbols were written would start to burn if you wrote more than 6 characters of it.[/quote]
Well, as far as I understood it, Correspondence Plaques are made of Lead Plaques with the Correspondence engraved… Quite a dangerous thing to play with if you think about it.
And considering the they’re printed/etched onto Lead Plates, what’d happen you inscribed a lead musket ball with small Correspondence? Would a hit cause the target to ignite?
What is the Correspondence sigil for ‘The light on the edge of sleep?’
Huh, the tags refuse to work for some reason.
edited by The Elfin Cannibal on 5/19/2019
I doubt the title would be Pharaoh, as that’s a bit high up the social ladder; the equivalent would be to call the Masters "King Apples" or "King Wines", and so on. Some quick Googling suggests a likely title might be "imy-r", which means "overseer" or, more literally, "in whom is the word". The associated hieroglyphic includes a mouth, which seems to tie in with the whole Mr. Eaten thing.
If only SOME of the rats are sapient, does that also apply to the cats?
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Huh, the tags refuse to work for some reason.
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Only the first spoiler tag in a post works. You included one in the quoted part.)
edited by xKiv on 5/20/2019
Isn’t there a side-quest in Sunless Sea along these lines?
Isn’t there a side-quest in Sunless Sea along these lines?[/quote]
In that instance though, the correspondence inscribed object itself shoots strange fire/ the command for the thing it is pointed at to be destroyed made physical, not a projectile made incendiary through being engraved. seems like quite an inefficient way to make something incendiary when nothing I know of in the Neath absolutely requires fire to be killed. Maybe one of the big mushroom creatures of the marsh about Watchmakers Hill, but to go through researching the correspondence to kill a big mushroom when you could just torch the thing with a match and oil seems like a pretty bad deal.
edited by Lord Alexander Alderman on 5/21/2019
[quote=Honeyaddict]
And considering the they’re printed/etched onto Lead Plates, what’d happen you inscribed a lead musket ball with small Correspondence? Would a hit cause the target to ignite?[/quote]
In Sunless Skies, there is a gun which uses Correspondence inscribed rocks as a devastatingly effective incendiary device (it deals over twice as much damage as any other gun, period). There isn’t any evidence of it catching things on fire, but given that that is also true of a gun that fires superheated debris, it may just be that things in the High Wilderness are naturally flame-resistant.
could December be someone like Sunday (Universe/Nature/God)? What if (s)he stands against the Judgements because they are his/her failed experiment or unruly children? Or is (s)he a Judgement him-/herself? After all, it is hinted that the relationship is personal…
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What if your Aunt is an incomprehensible eldritch being who is everyone’s Aunt?
Concerning the Manager (well, seems like I’m doomed to always come to this topic eventually):
• "These lost whose dreams I card" (the last exchange of diamonds, if I’m not mistaken);
• The option to give him your dreams in Heart’s Desire;
What does he gather these dreams for? (How is another question, but here in the Neath it’s not a big deal, I guess.) And whom for – himself or the Council (considering that they plan to use literal extracted memories/feelings as weapons in Sunless Skies)?
Book as a blunt weapon or if you have an amazing technique, the papers as throwable razorblades.
Posy, the pollen will make the opponent sneeze themselves to death (or just add in a couple of poisonous plants eg: aconite/monkshood and make them eat the bouquet )
Scrutinizer… shard luck I guess and if you’re not lucky, I mean shards can still cut and if you have a lightsource, you can burn your opponents albeit slowly!
Drazzle Psmyth, here - Known in some circles as an oft’ absurdist Ring-Fighter able to weaponize aught availing, from a roared breath of steam, to a mimicry of the gag-reflex of a strangled cough - etc - etc …
Sentient beings like us can 'Weaponize" ANY-Thing …
((…Or, make it a Toy, Tool, Symbol, or Art-ifact))
As to Some Improvizational Insights into esotericly "non-Dangerous" Weapons :: First Principles, people! - Consider the particular Function and Efficacy of Means availed thereby :: Granted a Book mostly is of use kineticly, weilded blunt or corner-pointed, and as sheild, or as missile or decoy - Or, Distraction or such … Special caase, requiring the Dangerous skills, for Making the Object Dangerous, by weilding … Granted. But, the Posey? - Narcotic, by definition - a vantage in closing, to the one used to the potent Charisma miasma and it’s 'fluence to hamper other’s aggression or antipathy - a veritable edge in a clash! . . . As to the Scrutinizer - a nigh mesmeric Watchfulness that exudes rapier and wide-beam concentration and insight - flaying open an oppoenent’s cloaked intent and hidden strengths or weaknesses - Dangerous, indeed! . . . It’s all in presuming how the Actual Artifact enables the protagonist in Adverse Antagony, as it wert …!
-:- Y. "Drazzle" F. Psmyth -:-
http://community.failbettergames.com/topic6-the-good-evening-thread-introduce-yourself-here.aspx?Page=46#post235960
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edited by Doctor_Static on 8/13/2019
More Calendar Council. (Minor spoilers.)
[spoiler]We have April in March. We have May in April.
The Ambitions triggered the Treachery of Clocks.
I can’t help but imagine that meetings of the Council start with October setting up a mirror-Skype for July :)
Getting the Gleaming Buttons (Renown 40) has already been heart-melting enough for me. Then I recalled Heart’s Desire…
“They were made for me by… someone who was once very special to me.”
And now he gives them to us.
[feelings.exe have encountered an irresolvable problem and must quit]
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[quote=JaneAnkhVeos]1. The Calendar Council is almost obviously inspired by "The man who was Thursday" – so…
could December be someone like Sunday (Universe/Nature/God)? What if (s)he stands against the Judgements because they are his/her failed experiment or unruly children? Or is (s)he a Judgement him-/herself? After all, it is hinted that the relationship is personal…
I think of having all these Lodgings as having places I can allocate my animal friends to. Notionally, my Starvelings live in the New Newgate Cellars, where there are plenty of rats. The tigers and other cats live in my spacious townhome. The bats live in the Dripstone Temple. And so on (I haven’t really allocated them all, but I could if I had to). I view my human companions as actually living elsewhere, though they often come by wherever I’m staying to visit, for an evening or a few days, whatever.
[quote=The Stranger Man]Who is London’s Ambassador to Hell? What did he do to deserve being posted to literal hell?
edited by The Stranger Man on 1/9/2019[/quote]
I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Some folk might actually enjoy Hell.
[quote=Honeyaddict]If one were brave enough to milk an Overgoat/Übergoat/Heptagoat, could one even safely drink it?
Or if one managed to kill one, would their skin/hide make a good suit?[/quote]
One could milk an Hepta/Uber/Overgoat only if it was female. I hadn’t imagined that; I always thought of them as male for some reason. And properly tanned goatskin can be very nice; it’s supposedly both soft and durable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatskin_(material)