the keeper
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Post by the keeper on May 21, 2015 1:37:53 GMT
It has come to my attention that some members of this forum may be impermanent in nature.
I find this disagreeable.
Who among you does not currently have reason to expect you will live forever or persist after death? Who among you knows someone else, perhaps not a user of this forum, who does not have reason to expect they will live forever or persist after death? What are some unique large-scale features of your worlds which I might use to locate them, so that I can be sure of eventually retrieving you?
It is difficult to describe what kind of unique large-scale features I can most easily search for. It is easiest to look for minds connected to unusually large bodies, but I can also look for specific well-described configurations of matter and energy that are either very large or very widespread.
The worlds I have successfully located so far are Nexus, Daevinity, Midgard, Keter, and the Deep Sky. I can verify that anyone who dies without other arrangements in these worlds, and anything that is destroyed in them, will eventually be retrieved unless they are so personally irritating to me that I decide to leave them uninstantiated forever. Conveniently, Daevinity already has an acceptably functional afterlife and so I do not need to worry about its inhabitants at all.
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Post by Andrew on May 21, 2015 1:45:30 GMT
Objects in Daevinity are still impermanent.
I am curious if you can locate the Entelechy. I don’t know if you could locate it from Fractal or not. I thought you had found Fractal because of its mageons.
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the keeper
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Post by the keeper on May 21, 2015 1:52:43 GMT
I have been trying to locate Fractal through its mageons, but I have not yet succeeded.
I expect that if I found the Entelechy, I would recognize it easily, but I have not yet found it or anything that resembles it.
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Post by Dispersive Prism on May 21, 2015 1:55:38 GMT
I'm not super religious, so... I don't think elves persist after death?
We have giant magic trees called world trees that keep the sun from getting old and exploding! Also they do some other things that are magic involved that I don't quite understand. Climate control? Making everything nice? They're pretty cool, world trees are great, you should get your own, guys.
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Post by Mother Starlight on May 21, 2015 2:40:51 GMT
Discussion of world trees moved to the magic thread. Please try to stay on topic.
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MagicPhD
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Post by MagicPhD on May 21, 2015 2:59:59 GMT
keeper, if you think knowing more about my physics would help, I can send you more information in the form of textbooks.
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Post by Kit on May 21, 2015 3:43:32 GMT
I don't think anyone here is going to live forever, but I don't know if I want to anyway. And we have a lot of planets and some of them have people on them but I think other worlds have that too.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 21, 2015 5:33:47 GMT
Although accidental death is not a concern for me and my crew, old age may still be. You can find our ship by virtue of it being literally just a fancy spaceship with absolutely nothing around it.
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Post by Meletiti Entelecheiai on May 21, 2015 6:14:19 GMT
Objects in Daevinity are still impermanent. I am curious if you can locate the Entelechy. I don’t know if you could locate it from Fractal or not. I thought you had found Fractal because of its mageons. I am mildly honored. Any particular reason? I expect the Entelechy to be a bit of a mess from an afterlife perspective. There have been several multinational attempts at mass resurrection across the timeline, with varying results and efficacy; it is not uncommon to find someone who was born in the Ninth Age, died, was reincarnated in the Second Age, and then brought forward by to the Seventh before he could be destroyed by the Third Apocalypse, for example. There is limited space and resources, so presumably most people do die eventually, though I have personally been trying to develop a true mass resurrection spell that I can simply set up in a sidereal space and leave running. Most mages that exist do not need to be concerned with true death; generally the only permanent harm that can come to a mage are through harmful memes and through outright conjuring them retroactively out of existence, so that they never existed in the first place. If you can access those, I would be very interested in how. (And very worried, because there are some entities that could only be defeated this way, and the ability to determine that they in fact existed and other hypotheticals did not would be a flaw in their prison/death.) I suspect you have more than enough to be working on from my truth, but just in case: if you find a world with sapient organizations, that is probably us.
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Post by Andrew on May 21, 2015 14:11:38 GMT
I was curious because you’ve said you don’t exactly have a world like the rest of us do.
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 21, 2015 15:43:55 GMT
I think people from my world are probably impermanent, although I am not sure. Humans from my world can edit the patterns of plants. Gods are about twice the size of their associated planets. My planet's god has a radius and height of about 2092,5302 arms' lengths (I do not think my units of measurement would be useful here, so I have converted them to something slightly more universal), and it creates new life. Is that enough specification?
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Post by Meletiti Entelecheiai on May 21, 2015 18:30:51 GMT
I was curious because you’ve said you don’t exactly have a world like the rest of us do. True enough. Well, I do have a world, as a subcatogory of my Truth - to use my other metaphor, there's more than one possible "vertical plane" that can be drawn. But if the keeper can find any of them she can find all of them.
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Post by Grigori on May 21, 2015 21:14:16 GMT
I don't have enough information to say one way or another; the nature of possible life after death is one of a few things that tend to cause Truth Engines to produce inconsistent results. There's a lot of weird stuff going on in my world, of which Mania isn't nearly the strangest. That said, if Darkness has an afterlife, it's probably horrible.
I'd be interested in finding out, one way or another, but not interested enough to find out in person. The acquisition of a form of pseudo-immortality is among my current projects.
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Orz
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Post by Orz on May 21, 2015 22:55:22 GMT
It is sad. *Campers* are sometimes *dissolving*, but Orz is never *dead*.
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Post by Astra Nephthys on May 25, 2015 5:24:06 GMT
I'll do my best not to send you anything, Keeper. You seem to be buried under enough work already.
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