un: blackhat | text

[equivo]

Before we all head into the labyrinth, I figure we should have a level playing field for making calls about risk.

If you die here, apparently you don't stay dead. You're down for two days or so, then you resurrect wherever your body happens to be. So it's probably a nice gesture, if you see a corpse in the maze, to drag them somewhere not totally inconvenient to wake up.

The temporarily dead also come back fully healed of injuries, but the penalty is some kind of personal loss. Think scars, tattoos, a digit, possibly more intangible qualities, etc. I have no idea what the rules are on that, so if anyone has any useful speculation, consider the floor open.

In fact, if anyone is familiar with this kind of thing back in your universes, you're invited to share with the class. The more we know about resurrection in general, maybe the more we can figure out about how it works here. Bonus marks if you have first hand experience.

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un: yuuki

[neverleave]

[Tattoos, huh? So Clarke's been talking to people.]

"More intangible qualities" can be memories. Nothing's safe.

Resurrection costs energy. It's never perfect. Only question is if it's inheret to the process here, or is Echo making us pay for the effort.

[equivo]

Memories. Great.

I'm guessing it's imposed by our mysterious sponsor, but that's just a guess. If it's an energy or resource issue, you'd think they could spend less on Legoland and more on life support.

[neverleave]

Which is why I'm inclined to think it's deliberate. For all we know they have enough for life support and they just want to force us to play.

Aurora said we can trade participation points for stuff. Maybe we can trade them for perfect resurrection.

[equivo]

That's the theory I'm working with.

[ He's holding back an 'obviously'. Not Natsuno's fault he's on edge. ]

And I doubt that's on the table, but you could ask.

[neverleave]

[And after asking...]

She'll "get back to me." Not getting my hopes up, but I guess that's the best we can get right now.

[equivo]

Interesting.

Did she say what the delay on answering was?

[neverleave]

<font face="courier>ao run it by Echo.

[equivo]

That's interesting, considering that Echo is supposedly aware of everything that happens here already.

that html...

[neverleave]

Yeah, but we don't know how immediate their communication with Aurora is. Maybe they need time to consider? Or pretend to consider.

who saw that...must have been the wind...

[equivo]

My money is on 'pretend to consider'. Makes people feel more included in the process.

[ He used to do it all the time. ]

[neverleave]

Sounds about right. Though according to Aurora, Echo isn't bothered with what we think of them.

[equivo]

That's the advantage of being an absentee mastermind, I guess.

Thanks for trying.