At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
+ Show First Post
Total: 4302
Posts Per Page:
Permalink

"Your incentive is more immediate, I think? 'Throw together some engineers' is more of a moonshot than 'get daeva on screen next week for the ratings'."

Permalink

"So maybe they're not there yet. Someone else can sneak in and disrupt the whole industry." She looks thoughtful.

Permalink

"I'm sure every decent-sized business with any risk tolerance has summoned a demon and asked what demons have that might be relevant, and maybe angels and fairies too. Not just engineering, drugs work on us if we want them to and we've been doing our own parallel domestication of carrots and inventing separate musical instruments and everything. The invention step takes longer than the plagiarism step."

Permalink

"Parallel domestication of carrots? Do yours taste different?"

Permalink

"Not very, but they come in different colors. Our spinach tastes different?"

Permalink

"How do demons domesticate foods, do you even bother letting them grow or do you just do it all really fast from seeds -"

Permalink

"Depends on the hobbyist!"

Permalink

"What a hobby. Anyway I'm sure every industry has summoned a demon to ask what they can learn, but I get the sense a random demon might not have the vaguest idea, really -"

Permalink

"Yeah. They might know who to ask, though."

Permalink

"I couldn't name the best human to talk to about hardware engineering. I don't think most people could."

Permalink

"Could you give them somebody who'd know who to ask if you could conjure up the Fortune 500 list?"

Permalink

"Maybe? I don't actually know which companies do hardware but maybe it's in the name."

Permalink

"Maybe it'd take more steps. But it helps that demon hobbyists are hobbyists, if you are friends with someone who domesticates carrots they probably nerd about it at you, same with hardware."

Permalink

"I'm sure I'd know if I had friends who worked in the industry, I just don't. Maybe demons cluster less."

Permalink

"I think so. Like, it's not an industry, you don't need help to do anything other than maybe the performing arts - also demons have had the equivalent of internet forums since the invention of writing."

Permalink

" - oh, nice."

Permalink

"Yep. Just conjure up everything since last time you checked in marked with the label 'carrot domestication enthusiasts unite!' and you're all set."

Permalink

"Did demons invent writing ahead of humans, seems like they'd have more incentive -"

Permalink

"We actually think daeva may have started existing when the first valid circle was written, so, no."

Permalink

"Yeah."

Permalink

" - that implies - no, I don't know what that implies, but it's weird."

Permalink

"Yeah. Limbo is about as old."

Permalink

"- so are people from before that just gone?"

Permalink

"Seems like. There was, in theory, an Eru-mediated human afterlife before that, but not in any - useful way, you know -"

Total: 4302
Posts Per Page: