As I noted, it's not viable, and it's something that the back to nature types try not to bring up - it would involve paring down humanity to maybe 1.5bn people. Which, naturally, is a wee bit of an obstacle.
Let's be realistic here. No matter what happens, that monster is gonna break free. Even if it's because a fly happened to land on a stone and cause it to crumble from the sudden weight
I'll admit, I stopped reading that halfway through the second sentence. I hear paragraphs are still a thing these days, but maybe they're a little too old-timey for you?
Damn, you have a heck of a lot more discipline than I do. I almost got through the first sentence.
Might be redundant actually. Were there female druids?
Apparently so, so I guess this is bias showing.wikipedia said:
Well, he's been thinking he might need help from Nabu, for a while now.
I think that's Chuck Norris?
I get what you're saying about not respecting her opinion but isn't that a bit much? He's basically ignoring what someone who was there and had first hand experience with this thing twelve years ago saw because he doesn't like her life choices?
Because he doesn't trust her judgement. And there is plenty of evidence to suggest her judgement is pretty dismal.
I dunno, maybe the people referring to the other bloke still in there? He has a lot of arcane resources and competent advisors, so I wouldn't be surprised if we see a Sephtian consult soon.
Better dead than trapped in fear for eternity.
Probably. As far as we know. But on the other hand we don't know very far because this was a Constantine job, and he did it with his usual flair for wrapping up all the loose ends and making sure nothing was going to come back and bite him in the arse. His usual flair, in this case, meaning more or less doing the exact opposite.
…Ok now he is just showing off.
Being released from what is essentially hell and going to your appropriate afterlife is a pretty big win.
It's actually rather easy to rectify that if you're in the mood. You just hop over to givewell.org, pick from the most efficient evidence-based charities that humanity has ever produced and slowly add money to the situation until you hit net positive. It's possible to calculate the exact amount of cash necessary to save a human life, and they've done most of the legwork already. Then you take your warm fuzzies and go home, secure in the knowledge that you've saved more lives than Steve from accounting.
Perhaps because he turned his testosterone back on?
Don't forget cleaning up Earth's orbit, you wouldn't believe how much simpler things would be if someone did that,
Oh, sorry, my 3-in-the-morning posting wasn't the best grammatically. But good effort to try and make it into a burn.
An opinion of someone who has vastly more experience with magic in general, and this case in particular, than Paul does. She also gave him the information that it is perfectly capable of escaping on its own if the stone circle got disrupted.
Not really. Imagine if someone walked in to see you who was a completely black void, who appeared to be a hole cut out of three universe. Are you telling me you wouldn't freak out a little? Sure, she is reliant on magic as a sense, probably because it can give her a lot of information, much more accurately than her other flesh senses.
It was substantiated, by her eyewitness account of the fact that he wasn't a separate entity after being assimilated over a decade ago. Her personal view on the proper way to live with nature doesn't invalidate her expertise with magic, or her ability to take what she knows about the "Terror Thing" and make a probably-accurate hypothesis.
Is that question mark supposed to be there? If so, is the S supposed to be capitalized?
Also, it could be that Zoat had a headache when he wrote it. I know when I'm in pain (like now) it tends to come through in my writing, unless I stop quickly.
The local Greenies also had vastly more experience than OL did at first with power rings. That doesn't mean that they were particularly creative with them or truly knowledgeable.
I didn't see anything suggesting OL was discarding everything she said. In fact, I seem to recall him thanking her for her information.
You're making a lot of assumptions that don't seem to be supported by the text.
Sure, she has more experience with using magic than Paul does, and probably more experience with magical events in general. But she's also clearly lacking in a variety of magical areas - for instance, she has no training in Atlantean magic, whereas the only Atlantean mage to see the Terror Thing directly seemed to believe that Siskin was at least somewhat separated from the Terror Thing.
Sure, but I can't see anything to the contrary in the chapter. He thanked her for the information, was somewhat dismissive of her claiming that it was impossible while also insulting her lifestyle, and then presumably went off to coordinate the investigation of those more competent in these matters. He didn't say "I'm going to save Siskin no matter what!", he just indicated that he wouldn't give up just because she did.
Paul should have transitioned her to....(googles burn wards in scotland)
...Edinburgh, because "Burn!"
Generally speaking, the people who stick around an SI story will be at least somewhat similar to the SI.
