i wasn't looking for this

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to call me maybe and trade my soul for a wish, which were getting crowded.

with Emily (Maggie)

with Alex (ErinFlight)

with Destin (Rockeye)

with Nick (Rockeye)

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[from_scratch]

"That would have some interesting implications, but do you have an actual application in mind?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"The fact that she finds not being able to perceive minds as being kind of weird and creepy? She's too polite to say anything about it, but I'm her twin, it's my job to make her life easier."

[from_scratch]

"Ah. Then, yes, for any hat recipients who cared not to creep her that would be a factor."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I was thinking more that I'd be more enthusiastic about the handing out hats part if they by default did not render the recipients creepy," she admits.

[from_scratch]

"...Well, as long as it doesn't compromise the intended hat function and full-featured models are available for anyone who doesn't want to be trackable."

[iamnotpolaris]

Shrug. "Well, that's what I'm suggesting testing, isn't it?"

[from_scratch]

"Yep. I can get you really thin foil if I suspend it in crystal or something."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Cool."

[from_scratch]

"You know, I don't think I would find it particularly creepy talking to an invisible person, as long as they understood that I could not see them and might walk into them if they stood in my path, and so on. Why is it creepy to be around a telepathy shielded person?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"...Because they don't feel like a person? It's less 'Invisible Man' and more 'Uncanny Valley'."

[from_scratch]

"I'm still not sure I get it."

[iamnotpolaris]

"...Okay, imagine you had synaesthesia such that every time you saw the color blue, you tasted lavender. Now imagine that you walk into a room, and every blue thing that you see makes you taste asparagus instead. You still know the things are blue, because you can see them, but the information you're getting from your tongue insists that these are not blue things, and are instead some less pleasant thing."

[from_scratch]

"Why is the analogy 'now it tastes like asparagus' instead of 'now it doesn't taste like anything'? ...Also, could you possibly choose a more confusing thing for a color to taste like than 'lavender'?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"I was trying not to use something stereotypically blue. I guess 'nothing' would have been a more apt analogy. I made this one up on the spot and didn't really check it over for errors, sorry." She sounds genuinely apologetic, not sarcastic.

[from_scratch]

"...Anyway, yes, if the thin foil option works I can make some of those, too."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Okay, cool. Ooh, speaking of warehouses full of things, you should see the size of the house we've got planned for Terraria, it's nearly as big as the boarding school we grew up at."

[from_scratch]

"Yeah? Who are you planning to fill it with?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"At this rate? Who knows."

[from_scratch]

"What are you going to do if you meet people incorrectly proportioned for it who desperately need homes? What then?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"It was already built to house a dragon. And Terraria houses are really easy to remodel."

[from_scratch]

"Are you equipped for lava-dwellers? Persons who require hard vacuum? Radioactive would-be residents who will need shielding to make good neighbors? Anything could happen!"

[iamnotpolaris]

"...I doubt we will land in the appropriate places to meet those people. The armbands won't randomly land us anywhere that just existing there would be harmful."

[from_scratch]

"But what if you land in an extremely unethical zoo and have to save all the variously habitatted inmates."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Then we would put them back where they came from, most likely."

[from_scratch]

"Their homeworlds have been tragically destroyed by space mice. ...Okay, now I'm just cribbing from shlocky sci fi."