One limitation of the current narrative format I'm using, of short-ish chapters focussed on one character each time, is that I can't do brief cutaways as I might in a longer single-read Untold Tales. So I can't toss in brief three-paragraph interludes of various cosmic beings incarnationg to other cosmic beings asking, "Did you do it?"







Indeed. But today's chapter might help forward that mystery.

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Besides a conscience, I also suspect that she saw Mumph in action with that Chronometer of Infinity, and wondered why he doesn't use it to fix everything up so he can rule the universe. During all that time, she probably did get to see the answer to that question: That as anyone really powerful would tell the Baroness, power is actually an illusion. The more you have, the more work it is to maintain it, until you really just become a slave.

I don;t feel it's my call to move an active poster's character far from status quo without permission, so I'm happy playing the Baroness' feelings as ambiguous for now.

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There was a whole entire movie on the subject, and though it was a comedy, that was the overwhelming message behind it: Bruce Almighty. Jim Carrey's character was made God for a while while God took a vacation, and discovered that not only having to maintain all of that power was a nightmare, but it didn't help at all the things he wished it would help with.

If one accepts the tenet of a good God then the most logical corollary is that the present situation humans are in is the best possible one for a work-in-progress that allows free will and consequences. Any alteration to the way the universe works, however well meaning, is therefore actually a negative one in the cosmic eternal balance of tbings.

Which is a depressing thought.

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I suppose it's a matter of how cause and effect are linked through time.

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This I wanted to comment on, because - and I didn't mention this before - Chiaki actually has a much better gift than Faite does.

There's some good distinctions there. I'm sure they would play well into some kind of emotion-wrenching character-focussed story bu I'm not sure what.

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She would see a vision of the Lair Legion being turned into roaches, among other visions about them. She would start tracing that possibility back to see what would have caused it, until the threads attached to it diminish to just one: The Baroness pushing that button.

One has to assume that a villain at the Baroness' level, who has set this plan up quite meticulously over a long time and has been shown to have investigated the "opposition" very thoroughly, has done her homework to slip her scheme past the usual guardians or has worked out how to finesse things through "the rules" so that they cannot lehitimately intervene.

This has to be narratively possible, become otherwise no threat holds any drama. If Lisa, the Hooded Hood, Faite, some time-traveller or magician, or whoever, can/should be able to prevent or undo every disaster and character death there is no tension and no consequences.

Fortunately, the narrative medium more or less demands that plots "play fair" with miraculous get-outs. If there's hellfire far below the trap hell-dimension that can burn down the villain and his plans, that situation had better have been established before it drops up as a solution.

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Can you do anything to extend the time before the Edit function vanishes from posts?



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EDIT: I found it. It's now set to One Month.

Thanks. I read that story to Rhiannon last night and was horrified by the number of typos and errors.