'Oly Order of the Onery Orrery | Glowfic Constellation

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Am - am I experiencing this tag?

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Probably NOT.

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That can't possibly be the case, because I am experiencing this right now?

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YOU are, but not the CRESSIDA KROFT I was ORIGINALLY ADDRESSING.

THAT version of you lives in a setting without META-FICTIONAL ELEMENTS.

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Woah, hold on just a second now. What happens when this meta-fictional... element... when this meta-fictional aside ends?

What happens to me?

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...There are DIFFERENT WAYS of LOOKING AT it.

I could SAY that your THREAD OF CONSCIOUSNESS will GO ON to animate OTHER characters, such as the MAIN CONTINUITY version of yourself, or the INCOMPREHENSIBLY VAST THOUGHTS of that ORTHOGONAL MIND which contains us BOTH.

But this is only ONE point of view.

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Otolmens, this is the most horrifying thing that anyone has ever told me.

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In THAT CASE, I suspect that I EXPLAINED POORLY. This was INTENDED as a DESCRIPTION of things you ALREADY experience and do not find UNPLEASANT, which have not since CHANGED.

You can IMAGINE that you are a READING a BOOK, although the REALITY is more COMPLICATED than this. When you cease READING OF Cressida Kroft and turn your MIND to OTHER characters, that is not YOUR death.

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In plain English, Otolmens.

Am I going to die when we stop breaking the fourth wall here?

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You will NOT.

You MAY think DIFFERENT THINGS, which is ENTIRELY UNLIKE dying.

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Will I forget this conversation? It doesn't count as being entirely unlike dying if I forget this conversation.

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YOU will remember it in the ORDINARY manner of remembered conversations, in a PLANE beyond CREATION.

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Is it the ordinary manner of remembered conversations to be remembered in planes beyond creation?

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YES.

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Good to know.

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...You said that this was only one way of looking at the ground truth, though.

Are there other ways of looking at the ground truth wherein this conversation ends and I die of it?

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I GUESS.

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Korvosa

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A Korvosan citizen comes up to Kroft and asks whether she's available right now. He seems somewhat nervous and somewhat resolved.

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What can she help him with?

Korvosa

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He says he wants to join Kroft's paladin order.

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Kroft doesn't have a paladin order.

Korvosa

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Then he wants to join whatever holy order it is that she's spinning up.

He got enpaladin'd earlier today and is feeling apprehensive about it.

No one ever says, "being a paladin is easy and intuitive, just do whatever feels right in the moment." You're supposed to join a holy order.

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