Kaylin's Creations

[DanielH]

Lazarus says wishcoins can’t beat ingotry, even the higher ones; trying would be pointless.

[Moriwen]

Possibly though you could do something of the form: (a) use wishcoins to acquire ingotry; (b) use ingotry to acquire Wishcoins 2.0, Now More Powerful Than Ingotry; (c) use Wishcoins 2.0 to beat ingotry.

[Kaylin]

I'm not sure you can bootstrap it like that. If it were possible, it would probably take the form of "recruit, possibly forcefully, an ingot with a relevant power". Which...actually makes for a decent plot hook.

[Kappa]

You can't wish yourself ingotry, or wish for someone to be an ingot, or wish for someone to stop being an ingot, etc.

[Unbitwise]

…you can wish for the existence of someone who will predictably be an ingot, though. Not that that's categorically more powerful than “forcibly recruit”.

[Moriwen]

Yeah, what Unbitwise said. (And that suggested to me that there might be other similar workarounds; for instance "foresee potential ingot powers of children you might have, select the most useful one.")

[Kappa]

What do you mean?

[Timepoof]

I think Unbitwise meant something like "make someone out of nowhere who is genetically a child of two very productive mints"

[Kappa]

Having them be just genetically the child of those mints wouldn't help.

[DanielH]

How is ingotry passed on, then?

And I think people are mostly thinking of Helen