You've made some progress on the mechanics of trailbreaking, but you never found Pnimm and you remain as much in the dark as ever about how you're supposed to navigate without zir. You don't even know how long it will take to reach the Omphalos. It could be another three years or something absurd like that.
Speculation is getting you nowhere. You make the executive decision to get an outside opinion.
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-- chroniclesVindication [CV] contacted apocryphalCatalyst [AC]. --
CV: I don't suppose you have any insight into how or when we can learn to navigate the Furthest Ring?
AC: hello to you too
AC: i'll ask your future self as soon as i get my hands on the fabled time courser.
CV: Something doesn't sit right with me about these causal loops. If I only ever knew because I found out from myself, what's the ultimate cause?
AC: therein lies the mystery of the everpresent word
AC: lmao
CV: Anything relevant to add?
AC: look i've been advised many times not to worry about it. the causal loops or the other stuff. you've heard from a version of maz who's seen you successfully arrive, haven't you
CV: And do you, in fact, not worry about it?
AC: that's my private business and frankly i'm shocked you'd ask such a question.
CV: Who on the living earth is giving you this advice? It doesn't sound like anyone I know.
AC: my master
AC: she says since we can't change the future worrying about how exactly it will happen is a waste of energy. and she'd know from ultimate causes, so
CV: I still don't believe in the Book. I think it's a script that we read from precisely because of directorial advice like that, not because it's inevitable.
AC: did you have someone directing you in your session?
CV: Kuviu played that role for us.
AC: okay i'll play along, what happens when you ignore the director and break a causal loop
CV: How should I know? Aren't you the master of the metaphysical?
AC: putting that above my shop door when i go into scholarly advice for hire
AC: yeah idk either
AC: if you want i can NOT ask future you but that just means i won't be able to tell you anything
CV: No, feel free to ask. Perhaps after you return with the information I'll resolve not to tell you.
AC: cool lol
AC: doesn't exactly prove an ultimate cause, though
CV: Actually, I have one more question for the master of the metaphysical. I was reviewing a previous conversation with Tahomaz, which reminded me that they mentioned how in Amdai it was common to alter reality by altering the Source code of the universe.
AC: yeah
CV: Does that not strike you as somewhat gamelike?
AC: i mean it's how the universe was made, it's more like the game shares that in common with the rest of the universe
CV: On Mydistrata it was generally accepted that the universe was formed via some sort of explosive astronomical event, and that only computing software is made up of code.
AC: sounds like you didn't have source interpretation logotechny
CV: Of course we didn't. There was no source code to interpret until we entered the game.
AC: how would you know if you never tried?
AC: sorry to leave halfway through a good debate but AA's writing me, i gotta take this
CV: Ze is?
CV: Say hello from me and Kuviu. We... miss zir.
AC: will do.
AC: hello to you too
AC: i'll ask your future self as soon as i get my hands on the fabled time courser.
CV: Something doesn't sit right with me about these causal loops. If I only ever knew because I found out from myself, what's the ultimate cause?
AC: therein lies the mystery of the everpresent word
AC: lmao
CV: Anything relevant to add?
AC: look i've been advised many times not to worry about it. the causal loops or the other stuff. you've heard from a version of maz who's seen you successfully arrive, haven't you
CV: And do you, in fact, not worry about it?
AC: that's my private business and frankly i'm shocked you'd ask such a question.
CV: Who on the living earth is giving you this advice? It doesn't sound like anyone I know.
AC: my master
AC: she says since we can't change the future worrying about how exactly it will happen is a waste of energy. and she'd know from ultimate causes, so
CV: I still don't believe in the Book. I think it's a script that we read from precisely because of directorial advice like that, not because it's inevitable.
AC: did you have someone directing you in your session?
CV: Kuviu played that role for us.
AC: okay i'll play along, what happens when you ignore the director and break a causal loop
CV: How should I know? Aren't you the master of the metaphysical?
AC: putting that above my shop door when i go into scholarly advice for hire
AC: yeah idk either
AC: if you want i can NOT ask future you but that just means i won't be able to tell you anything
CV: No, feel free to ask. Perhaps after you return with the information I'll resolve not to tell you.
AC: cool lol
AC: doesn't exactly prove an ultimate cause, though
CV: Actually, I have one more question for the master of the metaphysical. I was reviewing a previous conversation with Tahomaz, which reminded me that they mentioned how in Amdai it was common to alter reality by altering the Source code of the universe.
AC: yeah
CV: Does that not strike you as somewhat gamelike?
AC: i mean it's how the universe was made, it's more like the game shares that in common with the rest of the universe
CV: On Mydistrata it was generally accepted that the universe was formed via some sort of explosive astronomical event, and that only computing software is made up of code.
AC: sounds like you didn't have source interpretation logotechny
CV: Of course we didn't. There was no source code to interpret until we entered the game.
AC: how would you know if you never tried?
AC: sorry to leave halfway through a good debate but AA's writing me, i gotta take this
CV: Ze is?
CV: Say hello from me and Kuviu. We... miss zir.
AC: will do.
-- apocryphalCatalyst [AC] disconnected. --