55. books.

Jun 13, 2011 13:34

I wonder. Has anyone thought of keeping written records to themselves, so during floods, the rest of us don't have to go around answering the same six thousand questions everyone has. Wouldn't it be easier if we all wrote a series of immutable facts about ourselves and this place, so that as much as, apparently, our reality is flexible, there is ( Read more... )

usually well-behaved, epic library worker right here, team xenophobia!, self-appointed lord of the library, destroy a word and you destroy the world

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[Private] timesbureaucrat June 13 2011, 21:46:15 UTC
No. Not until we've talked.

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Re: [Private] deepdowndark June 13 2011, 21:51:30 UTC
About?

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[Private] On short lunch break, so...will have to finish thread later :-( timesbureaucrat June 13 2011, 21:53:29 UTC
Your headache after I played the Cube.

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Re: [Private] all good. it can wait, anyhoo. :D deepdowndark June 13 2011, 21:54:30 UTC
Oh, did you find out who did it?

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rayney_day June 13 2011, 23:49:57 UTC
I've tried. My other selves either don't find them or think it's a joke.

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deepdowndark June 14 2011, 00:01:08 UTC
At least you've tried.

I'm not sure you can get around that, I admit.

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darknessb4me June 14 2011, 19:58:01 UTC
Tried it after my first flood. The writing changes or disappears.

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deepdowndark June 14 2011, 20:18:39 UTC
...on paper? If I wrote on my wall, would it go?

This... this cannot be.

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darknessb4me June 14 2011, 20:34:18 UTC
Don't know. I put it in the journals and someone told me that no matter where you write it, it'll change.

[Switch to Dwarven. He hates not having filters.]

If your mind can be changed, anything can be changed.

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dwarfish. deepdowndark June 14 2011, 20:43:00 UTC
What is written should be immutable and indestructible.

If words can be changed, the world can be changed. You can rewrite the world.

That is no power a man should have.

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