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Subj: (No actual strawberries are used in this strawberry product)
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 at 04:17:54 am EST (Viewed 1 times)

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Who was that person?

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Akiko Masamune. And she did manage to impress Akiko enough that they became friends, instead of employer/employee.

Then I'm glad I made sure Chiaki had her scene in the Akiko chapter.

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If Xander had a library it is not to be found, except for a number of plumbing manuals.

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I didn't say she was terribly successful, though maybe she sees something in those plumbing manuals.

Well, she may be able to fix a ballcock

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Vinnie's difficult family life offers some contrary lesson though.

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As Chiaki would say, he has new family now.

Vinnie associates that as, "You haven't yet discovered how the people around you now intend to betray and kill you, have you? Sucker."

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We've certainly covered this before. They have an irreconcilable difference of perspective and experience on the matter.

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And yet Liu Xi goes on defending him. She hopes he'll learn someday, but she's also way too protective to let him go it alone if she can help it.

Noted.

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Vinnie is fairly versed in the rules. Griffin probably understands them pretty well too, although he doesn't know it yet.

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Lara will follow rules out of good manners and to make things go more smoothly. Right up until they start costing her. Then she'll break every one of them.

Faerie is traditionally a realm of rules, rewards, and favours. Unasked-for kindnesses and ill-considered slights are almost narrative debts. Cause and effect work in even more story-like ways than in the PV-proper.

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Which is why she's killed before in her line of work. She knows it's wrong because she believes it's an abomination to kill someone. But if that someone starts to cost her dearly, she'll turn her power up to 11 and not care about the consequences. And yes, that does occasionally create a lot of collateral damage, but amazingly, she's never killed an innocent bystander that way.

The LL tend to use rules of engagement similar to those of law enforcement, about using minimum neccessary force to succeed. That required force may sometimes be lethal, but lethal response is not the first option.

These rules work pretty well except with the Shoggoth and Donar.

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Faeries can be cruel.

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If she sees them being cruel to others, she'll probably ignore everything they say from that point on because she'll know their purpose is just to be cruel.

Not just to be cruel; but there are some creatures there who will grant your heart's desire but charge you your heart for it.

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The only way I could figure it was to somehow keep a count on how many indents in the reply was and then to arrange to ratchet that number back say seven or eight when it reached about ten. But I'm not sure how such a thing would be detected automatically.

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Wouldn't that make it into a right pointing "V" shape?

Not if the counter then got reset to one. Then it would simply bring that thread left to a positionb about 1/3 of the way across the board beneath the consecutive reply above and carry on. Theoretically the punctuation dot that precedes that particular line could be replaced with a small arrow to denote a continued thread to prevent any possible reader confusion.