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Tweak says, "You're goin' DOWN!"

Lizzy Carrera (lizzycarrera) wrote in madisonvalley,
@ 2013-08-31 15:27:00

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!open, ~10 points, ~~cesare borgia (for_family), ~~georgia mason (afterthendtimes), ~~harry dresden (thewinterknight), ~~lizzy carrera (lizzycarrera), ~~shaun mason (adaptvimmnities)

I'm not going to be dishonest about this. I'm telling you who I am so that you can avoid responding to me if you want to. I won't be insulted. Hell, I won't know about it, I can't be insulted if that's what you decide.

I'm Lizzy Carrera. Seven years ago I got a physics degree from Caltech. Since then I've lived in Maine and worked in ICT. Last month I was driving through Indiana when I managed to get trapped in this town at the point the barrier materialized. I'm from this world and this time, but I'm stuck the same as you are. Me and my daughter, Francesca. She's three. I've been working with local government and trying to figure out what's going on in this town, but in some ways your guess is as good as mine at this point. It's going to take time.

I want to say you can Ask Me Anything, but that's not strictly true. Upfront, there are things I don't know, things I can't talk about or I'm not qualified to talk about. Also, I don't want to address scientifically technical questions in a public network discussion, because there's far too much potential for misunderstanding. If you've got the background and you want to discuss it, contact me.

Otherwise, I'll try to answer what I can.

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	Harry \| Miss Carrera thewinterknight 2013-09-01 12:33 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I know the feeling. But most of us are decent people and if we can help it, we're not going to let anything happen to anyone. Especially not kids who've got nothing to do with conflicts that pop up, okay? Play it smart, Miss Carrera. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Harry | Miss Carrera

lizzycarrera
2013-09-01 12:53 pm UTC (link)

I'm talking to you because I ~~wanted to~~ believe that most people are decent and if we all just talked about this and treated each other like people we'd be able to solve the misunderstandings.

Score one for hopelessly naive. I ~~should have spied on the poorly-encrypted communications~~ think I'll be more careful from now on, though.

Lizzy, please. If you're going to show me magic and give me advice on not getting killed, you get to call me Lizzy.

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Harry | Miss Carrera

thewinterknight
2013-09-01 12:57 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, I'd like to think that too but we've all got biases and those are hard to get rid of.

But okay, Lizzy, another point on wizarding protection advice. Don't give your name to any wizards. It's different if you're writing it down, but names have power, and if you tell someone your name verbally they might be able to use it against you.

My name is Harry Dresden, you can call me whatever you want. Except like 'hey you' I tend not to respond to that.

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Harry | Miss Carrera

lizzycarrera
2013-09-01 01:03 pm UTC (link)

My name? I'm sorry, I honestly can't see the science behind that. I'm going to believe you're telling me the truth because it's an utterly bizarre thing to make up. I'm going to have to ask some possibly stupid questions - do you mean my whole name? Like, middle names and all? Or is any part of a name enough? Do I need to go by a false name? And what about a wizard who knows my name because I wrote it down and they read it, do I have to avoid saying it to them afterwards?

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Harry | Miss Carrera

thewinterknight
2013-09-01 01:10 pm UTC (link)

It depends on the wizard. I met a dragon once who almost killed me by saying a single part of my name. But I don't think there's any dragons in Madison Valley, though there is one of the old gods. Loki? Guy who had sex with the horse. If he's got a feud with anyone though we're kind of all fucked.

Usually though if you say your whole name--middle names and all--it's a bad idea. We use names to summon things from the Nevernever, it gives absolute power to the person holding it. And we keep them secret because the more names we have the better off we are.

If you're unsure of the wizard give a part of it, or a false one. And no, that's not how it works.

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Harry | Miss Carrera

lizzycarrera
2013-09-01 01:26 pm UTC (link)

There aren't any dragons here, no. ~~You met a dragon?~~ And Loki can't actually be a god...

Alright. Thanks for the advice, I'll...keep my full name to myself, then. We can talk about the science behind...summoning...when we meet, I suppose.

I'm sorry, this is - I mean, I've been here long enough to know that your magic is real, but the details are a little overwhelming. I need...processing time, I guess. I can handle the weirder parts of science suddenly becoming non-theoretical a lot more easily than I can dragons and name-based magic.

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	Harry \| Miss Carrera thewinterknight 2013-09-01 01:44 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, he might not be but I'm not a fan of pushing the old gods to find out, they tend to be grumpy. ~~There's also an archangel~~ And that's fine. It's normal. Everyone has that reaction the first time and ~~it's up to you if you deal with it~~ if and when you have questions I have answers. Mostly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Harry | Miss Carrera

lizzycarrera
2013-09-01 02:02 pm UTC (link)

You've met grumpy gods, have you? ~~Old Gods. Loki. At least it wasn't Cthulhu. Okay that's not even funny.~~

Yes. You've been so helpful already. We've noticed your efforts to keep people safe and informed. I'll probably have questions by Tuesday. That's probably enough time to get my head around the idea. It's science with differences, that's all. I can deal with that, no problem.

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	Harry \| Miss Carrera thewinterknight 2013-09-01 02:11 pm UTC (link)
	Uh, yeah, just Odin. Well I'm pretty sure he was Odin, he had a couple Valkyries with him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Harry \| Miss Carrera lizzycarrera 2013-09-01 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	How do you know he was actually Odin and not a magic-user pretending to be Odin? Gods are even more implausible than...~~(magic?)~~ well they're implausible. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Harry \| Miss Carrera thewinterknight 2013-09-01 02:20 pm UTC (link)
	It's.. it's one of those situations where you know what you're seeing if you're ready to handle the information. My apprentice didn't figure it out and she met him once too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Harry \| Miss Carrera lizzycarrera 2013-09-01 02:24 pm UTC (link)
	Alright. ~~That makes no sense.~~ That's the wrong sort of question for me to be asking, anyway. Irrelevant to what's happening here, I guess. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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