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Update #2 for September 1, 2017:

The Woodward Academy, Year 7, Chapter 1: June is now public.
The Woodward Academy, Year 7, Chapter 7: December has been posted to PRM.

Let's hope I'm not cutting WAY7-8 quite this close. 



Eric Storm

Barbarian:   Yes and no. Per se it´s quite improbable that the magic and haven reality layers/universes would be just of the size of the Earth. As such those reality layers/universes should be as big as the prime reality we live in. If not, depending on the physical basis for their existence, then such layers/universes should exist in all the places where the proper conditions are met (for example the condition could be the existence of intelligent beings on that location, or whatever other conditions Eric would like to specify). Anyway for now I assume that they are more or less the size of our prime material universe, and due to the fact that magic also exists on Earth, not just on Dugerra, it´s reason to think that Dugerra is equally real (material) as the universe we live in giving credence to the idea of equally sized universes in all the layers (or at least on the Dugerra and Earth layers). As such there should be weak points or points were realities collide and portals exist all throughout the universes. As in portals on Mars, other planets, other star systems, etc.  As this is a world created by Erics imagination, he would be the one to answer those questions if he were to be so inclined. Finding portals may be easy or difficult, but somehow those first portals between Earth and Dugerra were found originally. So it´s not impossible.

Thank you Eric for your new chapter. Great as always.

Last edited by Augur (2017-09-02 03:42:53)

Sorry Eric, but you don't get it. Human condition what? For example I currently have one child, I may have one or two (unlikely) more. Being as I'm not an ausentee parent children represent a really large investment of my time. I'ts not something I would undertake easily. So may be if I were to be immortal may be I would be willing to have more children every few hundred years. More than likely in very small numbers. It's not like I were to employ all my free time in making children as some would suggest. Also as for the rest of humanity there are answers for your arguments regarding superpoblation:
1. The treatment would probably be very expensive at first. Even if relatively accesible it wouldn't be accesible to all of humanity for quite some time.
2. Being immortal and knowing it would give a different perspective on life. Same as now in developed societies people don't hurry to have children waiting up to 30-35 years or longer before having children, because people don't feel prepared financially or mentally to have children till then. Quite probably knowing they have literally all the time in the world, a lot of people would postpone having children much longer.
3. Being as we are talking the future, it's quite probable we will have interplanetary travel by then. Some time later even interstellar travel. With colonies on other planets, humanity WILL have space to grow.
4. Etc.

Of course this is a large and complex subject and I have presented just some of the larger compensation mechanisms, but those are the reasons why I don't consider the arguments you expressed in your previous posts as having critical impact. There are more. The possibility of immortality would be just one more aspect of our lives and be taken into account. Worst case scenario, reproduction could be limited (no more than 1-2 children) on Earth, but if you moved to the colonies, restrictions could be lifted. Anyway, as I said, not a critical factor in my opinion.

We can agree to disagree, of course, and you could pull rank as the owner of the site no problem. Still it seems to me that our opinions on this matter may be somewhat divided, but not radically so. As in living forever (or for a very long time) could be interesting, but you think the limitations of our current planet would make it unviable. If there were a way, or ways to remove those limitations, you would actually agree with my position. So may be there is no actual need to pull rank?

Rule 1 precludes the existence of Rule 2.

 

Eric Storm

Update for September 15, 2017:

Do I even need to say this?  There will be no release of WAY7 next month.  I haven't even started the chapter, and I'm really not in a position to write on it now.  I won't be back to my normal surroundings until the end of the month.  September has been a complete wash, creatively.  Let's hope I can pick up in October and gain some momentum.

Eric Storm

Eric, I sent you an email the other night telling you to be safe and that I looked forward to the new chapter in Oct. but I meant Nov. Take care and I hope everything works out for you getting everything back home cleaned up.

Just my opinion, but I think it is rare to get a unanimous decision in that kind of thing.  There always seems to be at least one dissenter.  It could also be that someone in the quorum was racist against demighosts.  Anyway, I'm not sure that particular event had anything to do with targeting David's female friends.  But I could be wrong and you could be right.

It very well could be the Savolars, but it would have to be Marcus' grandfather, of whom we know nothing about other then the Judge implying he had wealth and/or power of some kind... I guess it could also be fame or infamy.  Both Marcus and his father have shown themselves to be cowardly,of limited magical skill, and just not very bright so it would have to be an unknown Savolar.  Although I guess the mother could be cut from a different cloth so to speak and be doing things to avenge her son and husband on the down low.  Maybe she is the real brains in the family.

Another possibility is that the were nation, having used divination, has learned of David and they are targeting him to distract him.  I haven't heard of David putting up any kind of privacy divination magic on himself to prevent it.

If you want a ludicrous possibility, then just maybe the King or someone in the Calamandian government is doing this.  It would be plausible though unlikely that their divination masters have learned that David needs to be pushed in a very specific way in order to become a force for Calamandia.  So they could be behind it, in order to get Davids skills and abilities to grow.  If the Savolar grandfather is in the government then maybe the higher-ups know what he is doing and just not stopping him.  This could be very dangerous though if David ever found out.  I think this would really piss David off and he would either seek vengeance or completely walk away from Calamandia for a few centuries.

Thank you for clearing that up. I suppose you aren't going to reveal any hints as to who is behind the rash of targeted incidents against David friends... nah, didn't think so.

After some thought, my money is on Devyn. She has the intimate knowledge of who is close to David, the requisite wizarding skills to pull off said harm and the unrelenting belief that David wronged her. Plus, given that she was at a slave auction ready to buy, she clearly has no regard for the law. ---------- Then again, I wonder if Cherise (from WAY2) is somehow free and loose in Callamandia??? Attacking women close to David fits her past transgressions.

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Does Daddy Savolar have the money?  Marcus didn't have the best wizarding coat, David payed for a better one even if we don't know how much of a better coat it was.  It seems to me that Mr. Savolar travels in some influential groups mostly because of his father (Marcus' grandfather).  He talked to someone that works in the firm that handles David's money at some party, that is how he found out how much David was worth when he filed suit against him for millions of granas.  But we don't know why Mr. Savolar was at that party, could it be because of who his father is?  To me anyway, Marcus' parents didn't come off as especially wealthy, not poor either.  I'd probably classify them as middle class or possibly upper middle class.  Now maybe Grandpa Savolar is rich and/or powerful enough to do some of these things.

Quayde, I suppose could be behind it.  But I think he really is just a frustrated looser.  If it ever came out that he was behind any of the attacks against David's women friends and was convicted of said crime, I think he may end up a ghost sooner rather then later.  I think this partly because then David would feel it would be reasonable to use that list of fifteen witnesses to his confession to show past malfeasance.

Demons are not "crazy" fairies.  Demons are simply another class of fairy, just like fireflies and fae.

And, oh, yeah, I'm finally back home with my computer set up as it should be.  Maybe we can get back to normal now... as soon as I get over being sick again.  (I think something about being stuck for a full day in a van with 8 animals screws with my immune system.)

Eric Storm