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Tweak says, "AZKABAIT = Hudson's Problem"

Percy de Rolo (terribletinker) wrote in noexits,
@ 2022-02-13 18:33:00

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!network post, critical role: percy de rolo, the magicians: eliot waugh, ₴ inactive: cirilla, ₴ inactive: lara croft, ₴ inactive: river song, ₴ inactive: rocket, → week 030 (hoth)

Hoth | Day 7
I can't believe I just got hit in the face with a paper airplane. You know that could put an eye out.

Anyway, I'm Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III.

If I didn't know better I'd think this was the Frostfell. It has to be just as cold as it at any rate. Please tell me it's not always this frigid.

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professorwaugh
2022-02-14 01:59 am UTC (link)

Yes. This is the first time you've shown up, but Rocket, for example? This is his second time he's been pulled in. He remembers being here before.

Others might disappear and instead of being pulled back, an alternate version of them might appear later. Of my friends I've experienced two Quentins, three Margos, three Alices. At one point there were two different Margos here at the same time.

Also, if you see Hugh, he's sort of my twin. Just not in our respective timelines/worlds. So that's a thing that sometimes happens.

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	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 02:14 am UTC (link)
	Suddenly dragons and hordes of the undead are so much simpler. Is it always the same person from a different point in one timeline, or are there parallel timelines some are pulled from? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Well we have four Lokis and their brother Thor, and as far as I can tell from what I've read all five of them are from different timelines. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 02:20 am UTC (link)
	Fascinating. This stuff is mostly conjecture where I'm from. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 02:21 am UTC (link)
	Strangely, I know for a fact there are at least 40 different timelines where I or my friends could be from and 90% of us have come from the same one, albeit different points in that timeline. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 02:24 am UTC (link)
	How do you know for certain? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 02:30 am UTC (link)
	Long story short, we were up against a powerful, shadeless, psychotic magician who was trying to take the font of all magic for himself. His sister happened to be a powerful time witch herself so every time we were slaughtered horribly, she'd reset the timeline and change something so we could try again. Forty timelines later and we finally made it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 02:33 am UTC (link)
	Oh. Always nice to know you've died terribly 39 times. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 02:38 am UTC (link)
	It could be worse. At least I don't remember said 39 timelines. This isn't even my first repeating time loop, either. Honestly horomancy is kind of the worst. I just know Henry is going to make me teach it to the first years when I get back. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 02:41 am UTC (link)
	Was it the magic that kept you from remembering? For the most part, I honestly hate magic. No offense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 02:45 am UTC (link)
	More like time was reset so none of us remembered something that technically hadn't happened yet. The dean, Henry Fogg, on the other hand, was a powerful enough magician to remember each timeline. None taken. The problems here aren't purely magic. It's more like a delightful combination of magic and science that no one seems entirely prepared for. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 02:52 am UTC (link)
	I can honestly say I wouldn't want that kind of power. I've combined magic and science quite a bit myself. It's not always very reliable. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 02:57 am UTC (link)
	The memoir he's working on seems promising at least. I think you've coined the campus's new motto; Derleth University: it's not always very reliable. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 02:59 am UTC (link)
	That seems like a massive understatement of a motto. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 03:02 am UTC (link)
	I'd say welcome, but it seems inappropriate as far as word choices go. May your stay here be as short as you hoped for. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 03:05 am UTC (link)
	I would hate to leave my friends down one in a fight against an ancient white dragon. So gods willing it'll be a very short stay. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 03:11 am UTC (link)
	Thankfully your friends won't notice your disappearance. When you return home it'll be as though you never left, and from what we've been told, you won't remember what happened here while you're there unless you get pulled back here again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 03:37 am UTC (link)
	Surely time keeps moving there while I'm here though. It would just be undone by my return? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 03:41 am UTC (link)
	Time does not always pass equally on different planes of existence. It gets particularly challenging when the difference in time between two worlds is inconsistent, but I digress. If time is passing on your world, from here, it's passing so slowly there's no way meaningfully measure it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 03:51 am UTC (link)
	Interesting. It's almost like being in the Feywild rather than a parallel Material plane. Although even the time passage between the Feywild and the Material plane isn't that significant. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 03:57 am UTC (link)
	And because we reset each week to how we arrived, no matter how long any of us are here we won't meaningfully age or appear any different when we're sent home. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. terribletinker 2022-02-14 04:01 am UTC (link)
	Well it's a lot less delightful than visiting the Feywild. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: private. professorwaugh 2022-02-14 04:09 am UTC (link)
	Maybe I've spent too much time in Fillory, or due to being deposed from my throne by a hostile fairy takeover, Feywild doesn't sound even remotely delightful to me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)