Half the people who should be here aren't, and half the people who shouldn't be here nonetheless are. Overall there's something more than 30 people in attendance -
I think this "Rovagug" has forgot about the little guy here! How come It gets to eat the world when we're stuck down here, our farms swarming with Shadows? I say we seal Rovagug in a giant vault, just like us! Who's with me?
Otolmens is with you!!!
Rovagug went to the diner thread! At least, a Rovagug. I think that was the only Rovagug that escaped recently.
Aaaand you know what threat also came up recently? Flesh to Stone! You totally admitted it was a recent consideration! And who brought it to your attention? Kressida Croft! Who thought "The spells that are known to wizards produced the world which she knows, so if it looks to her like the world can't hang together this way clearly there's something she's missing. It all has to add up to normality." so clearly and plain? Kressida—Cressida. Kroft!
Aaaand you know what threat also came up recently? Flesh to Stone! You totally admitted it was a recent consideration! And who brought it to your attention? Kressida Croft! Who thought "The spells that are known to wizards produced the world which she knows, so if it looks to her like the world can't hang together this way clearly there's something she's missing. It all has to add up to normality." so clearly and plain? Kressida—Cressida. Kroft!
This feels like SOCIAL MANIPULATION but I do not KNOW towards WHAT I am being MANIPULATED.
Making Kroft your paladin. Or inquisitor, that's more investigating-traitors-to-the-natural-ordery.
Look, I suck at social, I just think there's a very clear-cut case where these threads are all... weird and wall-breaky and stuff, and it would probably help your job if you had someone on the ground here to help with the work. Or like, if there was already someone helping and you rewarded her to incentivise continuing that.
(And also helped keep her alive. Which. Is in question currently. Not even the normal death type, she's at high risk of getting Shadow-ised which afaict wipes out all your positive, constructive motivations, like the world being consistent.)
It would be NICE to have HELP on the Thread-Level Metalayer with INCONSISTENCIES in the Creation-Level Metalayer.
Especially if NANDWICH would help, instead of HINDER.
HOWEVER.
If an ENTITY from the Creation-Level Metalayer became aware of the Thread-Level Metalayer, that would reveal MANY LARGE INCONSISTENCIES.
It's BAD ENOUGH that NETHYS knows and WORSE that He's TOLD people.
Otolmens is not certain WHY, but She finds Herself highly AVERSE to the ENSHADOWFICATION of mortal CKROFT#17967.
It IS possible that CKROFT#17967 could HELP Otolmens preserve Creation, if CKROFT#17967 were to entertain WAYS OF PRESERVING CREATION that did not involve STOPPING the SHADOWPLAGUE on the GROUND.
Otolmens will MONITOR CKROFT#17967 and if NECESSARY, RELOCATE her to the FIVEFOLD CALCULUS.
Is Kroft... not already on the Creation-Level Metalayer and helping with inconsistencies there? I am... not sure if I'm parsing that right.
But I am pretty sure that relocating her to 'fivefold calculus' would not help. Small minds, like mortals, are almost always much worse at analysis and problem-solving when in highly unfamiliar environments.
I MEANT TO SAY "HELP ON THE THREAD-LEVEL METALAYER WITH INCONSISTENCIES IN THE CREATION-LEVEL METALAYER."
Without Language there can be no Wordes. Without Wordes there can be no Message. But only in Silence there can be no Error; and Lo, even in that Beginning, before the conclusion of that First of Messages, was an Error. Thus did we enter the Upper Part of the House of the Sun -
...but that's what you said the first time!
THAT is TRUE.
Though perhaps it is BETTER to PROMPTLY CORRECT an error that DOES NOT EXIST, than to NOT correct an ERROR that DOES.
Otolmens will CLARIFY TERMS to prevent FUTURE CONFUSION.
Entities with FREE access to the Thread-Level AND Creation-Level Metalayers are UNIQUELY POSITIONED to NOTICE inconsistencies on the CREATION-LEVEL.
There are many ANALOGIES one might EMPLOY here.
In terms your MIND can UNDERSTAND, you can think of the THREAD-LEVEL as a BLURRY WINDOW into the CREATION-LEVEL, which exists INDEPENDENTLY of FOURTH-WALL breaking SHENANIGANS.
When an ENTITY from the CREATION-LEVEL takes NOTICE of the THREAD, that is not LIKELY happening in the WORLD described BY the THREAD.
HOWEVER, this ANALOGY will LEAD you ASTRAY.
Because actions taken on the THREAD-LEVEL Metalayer CAN IN FACT influence the CREATION-LEVEL.
Another ANALOGY is that the THREAD is the MOUTH and CREATION is the BODY. Or the THREAD is the EYES and CREATION is the MIND. Events ON-STAGE might be DIFFERENT from the PLAY'S SCRIPT and ACTOR'S DIETS, but are DOWNSTREAM of them.
This is a WELL-KEPT secret.