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On The Restitution Of Lost Souls
IHNIWTR
Posts: 346
8/23/2016
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I mean this literally - the CVR matches up souls with their previous owners. Specifically their previous owners: they don't just send random souls to soulless people. How do they know which one goes where? The contracts can help them discover who might be in possession of them, but we know ownerless souls tend to be thrown together without order after a while. How do they discern the person they used to belong to?
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
8/23/2016
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I have that feeling that the pocket watch you earn when you join the CVR is good for more than just giving you the time. In a certain storyline (trying to avoid spoilers here), the watch is used in a non-disclosed way to restitute the soul to a woman.
There is also the possibility that the ownser of the soul might be able to tell if a certain soul is theirs or not.
I also have this speculation that the Embassy, being the bureaucracy-loving devils they are, might put a 'serial code' in those bottles, which appears in the respective contract and lets you identify the owner. But it's just speculation.
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PSGarak
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8/23/2016
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I was sort of under the impression that infernal bureaucracy is not particularly efficient or effective. They seem like the type that will file souls alphabetically by color, and the next day a new manager will declare that the shade formerly called periwinkle-chartreuse will now be called chartreuse-periwinkle.
Souls can talk. On the sidegrade option for Brilliant Souls, it seems that the soul is telling you a secret when you free it, and possibly that you are negotiating with it for its own freedom.
So maybe you can just ask a soul who it belonged to? Or at the least, listen to its wailings and infer an address or something.
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Catherine Raymond
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8/24/2016
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But the peculiar thing is that the Shepherd of Souls card does not require that you present the Committee with the same number of souls as contracts. The greatest reward is for 1000 Souls and 100 contracts. That one contract for every 10 Souls! I always thought that was peculiar.
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phryne
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8/24/2016
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
But the peculiar thing is that the Shepherd of Souls card does not require that you present the Committee with the same number of souls as contracts. The greatest reward is for 1000 Souls and 100 contracts. That one contract for every 10 Souls! I always thought that was peculiar. That is indeed peculiar. Also, souls are traded every which where in London, but contracts are a lot harder to get. Seems to indicate to me that the Embassy is really interested a lot more in the contracts than the souls themselves. We still don't know exactly what individual Devils do with the souls they've obtained (I've never figured out the Infernal Sommelier who actually seems to "drink" Brilliant Souls - is he a devil, or something else?), but the Embassy at least seems focused on cataloguing the contracts.
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