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cam meets some fastfairies and the thread authors take no position on the presence of an adorable romance arc
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"There's not an obvious size I'd expect but I don't know a ton of physics. And yes, but the best way to do it involves putting satellites in orbit around the planet and I'm not sure what next-best option I should go with given how there were not satellites around the planet at this time."

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"If they were fast maybe no one would've noticed them."

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"Things up there move really fast and people learn to detect them anyway!"

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“Huh. Good for them. How do they do it?”

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"Don't know off the top of my head."

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“The communications are not very important yet but it’ll help a lot with coordinating people eventually.”

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"Yeah, I expect it to be a tractable problem. Uh, until the last couple decades whereupon wireless signals of kinds I know how to use will all be detectable."

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“Maybe by then we will mostly be on a faraway world.”

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"Yeah, if I can get you set up on Titan no problem at all."

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“They won’t check there?”

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"There are people living there eventually but not with very much coverage."

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“And I guess we already know that default conjugations for people in an area don’t find fairies, at least not while we are fast?”

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"Or small, it could also be small."

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“Might be good to know which because other worlds might not have paths.”

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"They well might not, someone would probably have noticed."

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"The conventional understanding of paths is that they're responsive to vegetation. I don't know if there's any of that on Titan."

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"Not a speck. Only vegetation? How do the courts in caves work?"

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"Some caves have vegetation in them. If you're really patient you can also plant vegetation and then wait for it to grow in a way that creates the paths you need. Areas that are pure rock with no plants won't typically have paths."

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"Then we should not expect Titanic paths. Drat."

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"We can probably check easily enough whether it's the smallness or the fastness that protects fairies from conjuration, some fairies are big at any given time."

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"It only prevents naive conjuration, and I'm no longer a naive conjurer. I'm not actually sure how to parameterize as though I were one in this case."

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"Huh, all right. I don't really know what you're doing, mentally, when you conjure things."

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"Depends. In the case where naivete matters, it's like trying to get 'all the people in this geographical area at this time', and for some reason a naive demon trying to get that result doesn't conjure and notice any faeries, and I can."

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"Huh." Shrug.

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"Yup. Very weird, hard to figure out without more demons to test on."

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