Alicornutopia

Moriwen wrote:If you are very, very lucky, you will never see the Path again.

Wait, really? Very very lucky? So people who see the Path are more likely to see it again than others?

I was, of course, thinking about a joke involving mastering siege warfare and trebuchets before I actually thought about that idea.

Off the path after you finish your meeting with the Angels and understand the point, you end up walking up to a wall. The path continues behind it, the sides are a nice chasm. Here is a nice trebuchet. You'd best learn to fire it, it's the only way past the wall! And so, it happens. More walking. Oh hey, a balilsta... Then a diseased cow next to a catapult. Then a battering ram, while this wall is manned by archers, best learn to cover it and push it! Next wall, ladders and a sword. Have fun learning swordplay. Keep moving. The more time you spend, the closer the Angels walking behind you get. They don't have walls to breach. You should be setting up quick patches behind you to stall for time, especially when the angels in front of you won't let you go until you do, and they told the Walking Police Angels it was time for you to walk and read again.

Best of luck, siege-master-to-be. Perhaps you'll find a cruel penance in this after all the peasants you've fired.

(I was just about to sleep, I shouldn't check here before bed.)

Nick wants to BURN it. Steel can't decide what to think of it.

Gren would probably take the Path the best, of my characters.

How do you master painting if you can't see color

Well, you take this set of color filters and you look through them at the scene. Then you compose the entire thing in your head. Then you paint (with paints that you have already identified with said filters).

Wasn't Van Gogh or somebody colourblind?

relevant calvin & hobbes strip

(a) "very very lucky" was hyperbole, sorry for the confusion.

(b) The Path is reasonably accommodating about things that are necessary for your virtue. Someone mastering painting probably gets their color vision back somewhat more promptly than most people. If your virtue would be something literally incompatible with the nature of the Path, it doesn't pick you up in the first place.

(c) <3 <3 <3 the continuing trebuchet saga

Kappa wrote:Wasn't Van Gogh or somebody colourblind?

I believe there are theories that Monet could see ultraviolet, something about having cataract surgery? This article looks to have a reasonably good/skeptical overview but I did not read through the whole thing so take with the usual internet grain of salt.

They want you to think it was eye surgery, but really he’s a vampire.