Alicornutopia

The thing Promise used works when you want to test which of a group of people you have vassalized when you already understand and trust the vassalization system. It works less well to test whether vassalization functions at all, especially when you have only one test subject and are very reluctant to give her any orders in the first place, especially when you have strong evidence she has magical powers of some kind but only her word for the scope of those powers. A two-player game of Vassalization Says can't tell the difference between a vassal and a mindreader with acting skills.

True, I was forgetting that the extent of the powers was unknown.

If there was no other evidence of sorcery, then a two-player game of Vassalization Says is pretty useful. Other non-vassalization magic would be comparatively unlikely. Teaching him enough sorcery that he can verify that mind-reading seems difficult would take long enough that he would probably have reason to trust her from mundane evidence.

He already has reason to trust her from mundane evidence, or he wouldn't be trusting her, but the evidence in question is squishy fallible interpersonal stuff so he's reluctant to go with it without verifying, except that he can't verify it in any theoretically-infallible way so he might as well not put her through rigorous honesty-testing.

The Sadde and Addy (does that rhyme? not sure how Sadde is pronounced) thread is everything I hoped it would be. :)

Sadde and Addy thread: eeeeee, so much eeee! EEE!

I always pronounce it like “sawed” in my head, but I think that’s wrong.

The closest pronunciation in English is something like "SAH-day"

Is the setting of Elos-Six original or something I don't recognize?

Unbitwise wrote:Is the setting of Elos-Six original or something I don't recognize?

Original, but it lacks a proper name so far. We have been calling it "magic IN SPACE". XD

"No. But you and Lytee could come find me here if he caught you."

Uhm, Promise? There is probably a better way to say that Scatter slipped up with the names than by actually saying somebody’s true name.

Unless that was Alicorn’s mistake, not Lytee’s and Promise’s, but Alicorn seems unlikely to make that particular mistake.