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A very odd question
Addis Rook
Posts: 125
9/13/2017
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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
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
9/13/2017
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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!
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Carns
Posts: 30
9/13/2017
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I don't think they make contact lenses, but if you want living lenses, just bring some there.
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Ixc
Posts: 365
1/22/2018
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There is only one response to this question....
eye damage.
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Pleased to meet you. Ixc, spy and detective. Inventor of the Correspondence Cannon.
Are you a Paramount Presence? Record your name here. For posterity, of course.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
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Daedalus_Falk
Posts: 234
1/19/2018
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Siankan wrote:
Greg M wrote:
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.
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 "Because they're items", but the case of the "Tomb-Colonist" does seem to indicate an exception of some kind.
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For I was hungry, and you gave me rats. I was thirsty, and you gave me rats. I was naked, and you gave me rats. The rodents were gathered together, the cats slept in the Sun’s blindness, and the rats rose like the Moon, in the light at the edge of the cheese.
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