Interlude probably going up tomorrow.
You guys will get to meet Marigold.
That would be telling.
For a totally (and I
do mean totally) unhelpful hint on how Concordance works. Bubbles and Lines. Bubbles within Bubbles, bubbles around bubbles, Lines between Bubbles. Growing bubbles, shrinking bubbles. Subsuming bubbles. Not actually bubbles. There must be bubbles. Make Lines. Follow Lines. Leave the lines! Come back quickly though.
Fracture and Tension are not bubbles or lines, but talk about them.
Sebastian Waters created his own greatest enemy this day... and it wasn't Lilly.
I love this last line, really sells the whole Ethos.
A critical thought occurs: is our tree under attack/in dungeon territory? If so, sneaking to it might... not be the best idea though not completely out of character either without first testing how our new powers match up against the iterated creatures.
@Slyvena?
If need be, we can bring Captain Martin (and, by extension, his elite); it seems apparent that we're spilling most or all of our secrets; what's Petal next to that?
He already knew about your Locus and your desire to get there, so assume that's on the cards for what you're about to talk about with him.
(Unless you have some overwhelming desire to tell him the honestly very little you know about Petal)
If I were Slyvena I'd be all like NO STOP ASKING about this by now.
Haha it's fine. Munchkins gonna munchkin.
But I will say you literally cannot cheat this system. If the consequences of your actions are not clear to a sense Lilly possesses, then there is literally no way she can infer a future result. You don't even remember the other variations after the fact, only the chosen course and that you used {Sample Space} to choose it.
No leapfrogging, no precommitment conditionals, no nested loops. It's just not within the bounds of the power. Grow it into Tier 10+ and see if it gains new capacity, but right now it's just not there.
If you do something like somehow use {The Ladder} while within the {Sample Space} it will just tell you the same thing in all of them.
No Meta f*ckery.
While {Sample Space} can be used to improve Lilly's thought patterns to a degree, in this world thought it not just a deterministic chain of chemistry, it ties into fundamental magic forces some of which fall outside the purview of Concordance. This is the same issue as I think I mentioned earlier in the thread about how it struggles with Concepts. {Sample Space} will help Lilly outwork an idea she has much better if conditions are right, it is not quite as effective at helping her come up with new ideas, even if that idea was somehow able to be conceived off and formulated in a couple seconds.
Can definitely stop her from freezing in decision paralysis during a sudden confrontation for example, but every idea she has in {Sample Space} is not going to be an epiphany. She will often do new things, but its not going to redefine
If he wanted me to morally object to his personality death, he should have had a nicer personality.
Lol. If you don't use your mind responsibly it will be taken away from you.
May I make a suggestion that you put a link to any other threads in the OP or an informational threadmark, @Slyvena?
SB is basically an afterthought at this stage. At some point I'll probably mirror this onto somewhere like RoyalRoad instead. As I recall, one of the secret challenges (Figuring out the Dungeon <-> Foundational Ethos connection) was solved on SB by a loyal commenter and it was then immediately brought up in this forum too.
Also thanks for the like 100+ reactions over the past day TheBiggerFish
Assuming that Evie is doing the winning distribution automatically, the total XP gained by [Dream], [Brave], [Cleaver], and [Bedrock] is 115 XP. But that's only 60% of what they earned, which would mean that the total XP earned is about 191, with 115 going to their respective Ethos and 38 going to Evie and [Tower].
But that's not quite the case here. Evie got a total of 43 XP (extra 5 XP) and [Tower] got both 59.6 XP to its level (extra 21.6 XP) AND an additional 33 XP to its bank for Gravitas Weaving.
I wouldn't get too lost in the number crunching. I don't do the redistribution math, I just do a rough split 'close enough' to the voted one. Over the course of like 10 chapters it should average out to about right just by sheer iterative weight. Plus, you'll never be able to directly tell the difference between earned and diverted anyway. And [Towering Edifice to Heaven]'s interactions with Gravitas and how it feeds into its expansions are weird too.
Nevermind, I set up an excel formula from 2.3 onwards, so it actually will be pretty exact from now on.
And his [Rapid Iterator] could possibly create lots of prototypes in a short time
Plot Twist! I think you mean [Iteration to Perfection], your father does not have a Foundational Ethos.
Obviously, we shall go nowhere near Cierlla before being confident in our abilities to subvert or {Subvert} her. Our coordination makes us excellent for choosing battles.
Cirella is more than 2000Km, multiple kingdoms and a small sea away from you. Unless she decides to Sing to your Name, you shouldn't have any dealings with her for a long time. You wouldn't get her attention for anything less than assasinating the king though.
Lilly can just write out every permutation of plan to exist, circumventing the need to actually do the thinking bit.
It takes time to formulate an idea, decide to flash-write it and then judge whether it's a good idea or a bad one. 2 Seconds is woefully too short for that. You'd get the best version of those 2 seconds, so a well-made poo-sandwhich.
Actually @Slyvena what does Lilly know about things like Dangerous Magical Beasts. Are beasts Like dragons or other such beasts known to be dangerous threats.
So Lilly hasn't ever seen another intelligent race, but the Elves are cordial with Humans and you can find them in the larger cities from time to time. Lilly hasn't ever heard the specifics, but Ethea work differently for Elves in some way.
She's never heard of magical beasts having Ethea, but they are certainly stronger than and possess more abilities than their physical forms would allow, so something is going on there.
Dragons are mostly extinct, many considered them the servants of the Demons. Many Demons take on the shape of a Dragon in fairytales. Someone can probably explain how their magic worked too you, but you know they were tremendously powerful creatures and far more intelligent than humans.
