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un: blackhat | text
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.
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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And that's not necessarily true. If this is anything like tinker tech, it might not be reverse-engineerable without the right power.
Quick question: do you know what a tinker is? And not in terms of someone who fucks around with a hobby in their garage.
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If not tinkering in your garage, then there's the former trade and the derogatory slur. Either of those what you're after?
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None of the above. It's a power classification. Tinkers are parahumans who fabricate advanced technology. People who try to reverse engineer it either fail, if they're lucky, or blow themselves up, if they're slightly less lucky, or fuck themselves and a solid surrounding radius up, if they're not lucky at all.
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You think there’s a tinker involved in this that we haven’t met yet?
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[ When Krouse is arguing with someone, they know. ]
And maybe, but that's just more speculation. I could be biased because a tinker is the only kind of person who could pull anything even close to like this off where I'm from.
It'd be nice if we had enough information to rule anything out or in.
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My world has some brilliant engineers. Like the guys at Kord Industries? Or LutherCorps. Supergeniuses, but I think they're just people. Nobody could keep something like being a "tinker" a secret. Unless they ARE tinkers, and just use it do make mad money.
But I think we're getting into Jersey Devil territory.
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If they were tinkers, you might have a different word for them, but believe me: you'd know what I was talking about.
Feels like we crossed into that territory a while ago. It's not great. I know this might sound a little particular of me, but I happen to like knowing what the fuck is going on.
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[ He knows he's not. Plenty of people have seen fit to divulge that exact opinion to him. He's just not prone to breaking discretion without a compelling reason. ]
But I'm not interested in stirring the pot for the time being, so fair enough.
Would just be appreciated if we knew what the choices we're making actually meant. Hence the PSA.
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[ He's familiar with the theory, and the prison architecture, but it's certainly niche terminology that the average American teen wouldn't know. Maybe it's from SAT prep. ]
Don't mind me. I'm not the PSA police.
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[ A heavily edited version of the concept. There's no reason a bright enough teenager wouldn't have come across it somewhere, in a book or a video game, and been interested enough to look it up.
Krouse just happens to know it because this is the second one he's been in. ]
And speaking of concepts, there's one. Tough beat. People would be keeping you busy around here.
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We probably could use a dedicated PSA person, but not to police the messages. To make sure everyone got the messages.
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[ Krouse doesn't believe it, but he might as well pass it along. It's hard to imagine anyone who would abduct the underaged drawing the line at personal privacy, but then again, it wouldn't be the first time he'd encountered authority figures with funny qualms about what is and isn't permissible to do to a minor. ]
We could. I'm thinking it should be someone with a better social network than mine.
[ He's interested in appearing helpful, not becoming infrastructure. ]
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Do I count as having a social network here? I don't think I do. We should see if Hawkeye Kate's up for it. She's an extrovert.
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[ Must be nice, having a healthy sleep schedule. Krouse can't relate. ]
And I wasn't suggesting you. No offence. Kate might be up for it - or, preferably, she could find someone else to do it for her. Got a lot on her plate as it is.
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I think everyone has a lot on their plate, though. Lot of worlds to save.
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That's true. But some of us have been a bit more community minded than others, let's say. I'm including myself in 'others', for the record.
[ This doesn't count. ]
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I suppose, if you were civic-minded, you'd have gone for the username whitehat.
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And here I was thinking that reference was going over everyone's heads. I'm using it in the computers sense, not the Western one.
There's an idea for if we run out of things to talk about. 'Tell us the origin of your username'.
UN: timdrake
That's easy. Mine's my name. Tim Drake, at your service.
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Cinema aside, nice to make your more formal acquaintance, Tim. I'm Krouse. Do you prefer Drake be taken in the sense of dragons or ducks?
ETA: "The drake is the most dangerous bird" is a sentence that has come out of this idiot's mouth.
I don't care? The family crest has a dragon, but I don't think it's ever come up. Why'd you ask?
Tim Drake is definitely the coolest Robin
I was going to say I was just curious, but you've sidetracked me with the family crest. Specifically: you have a family crest? Are you a feudal lord?
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And no. There’s no title or Drake Manor. Most old English surnames have crests and mottos.
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