Sandbox Discussions

[DanielH]

I am reminded of a tweet of Alicorn’s a while ago: she was happy with the total amount of glowfic in her life, but not the variance. Last week there was practically no glowfic. This week there is a huge amount.

[Bluelantern]

What I need to read to understand Leaf's sandbox with Cam?

[Kappa]

A LOT of things on the Many Worlds Forum. I don't have a list off the top of my head.

[DanielH]

Primarily the QUALITY DISC0UNT SPELLBOOKS thread and some PMs that haven’t been made public yet.

[Bluelantern]

What antheomancy and automancy do exactly?

[Alicorn]

Antheomancy is basically the Alucine equivalent of being computer-savvy, only with magic flowers. It also includes some ability to interact directly with the flowers themselves; someone whose antheomancy was for crap couldn't carry one around in a vial like Cayra's doing. If you learn to navigate and write to the network and keep some flowers alive in your garden, you have some antheomancy; since this is how Cayra takes notes she's got a bit more than average. The vice is extroversion (of the sort that makes time alone hard to cope with, not the sort that makes talking to people more appealing than it is to begin with) but since navigating the speakflower network will let you find lots of other people with the same vice and you can help each other out it's considered a pretty minor vice in reasonable quantities.

Automancy is magic of the self. It will confer Cayra a pretty heavy-duty, selectively droppable mental immunity, as well as fixing her clumsiness, allowing self-healing to the point of indefinite youth, pretty much arbitrary shapeshifting, maybe stuff like turning invisible. She can't use it to affect anyone or anything other than herself but that's the only really hard limit we have in mind for automancy's potential. Its vice is self-centeredness. Cayra in this sandbox doesn't have very much automancy yet so she's not noticeably more than Bell-standard self-centered, but it will get worse as she learns more.

[DanielH]

If Andrew knew he forgot to mention the language thing, he would be kicking himself. He mentioned something related (about not revealing summoning instructions to the forum in general partly because of a magic memetic hazard language), but never spelled it out anywhere. He did warn Leaf about metadata and alternate formats, but not specifically this case (and electronic metadata is quite unreliable in ’95, such that just one song where the electronic version has metadata claiming it’s from 2985 would be thought s typo).

Did Cam manage to conjure the entire discography of the band because “entire discography” is enough of a specifier like the title is?

[Alicorn]

Yes. You can do complete works of an artist even not knowing any song names.

[Kappa]

Miles feels so underwarned! He's not going to complain, though, because Cam seems all right.

[Alicorn]

And cute and waggy.