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Post by mturtle7 on Mar 8, 2022 19:00:57 GMT
Fortunately for everyone involved, Kat does specify, "anything used in the construction of the buildings", so the food should be fine, at least in theory. I mean, unless there's a building constructed out of food somewhere in the Court. Which wouldn't actually surprise me, given how many weird buildings and stuff there are in the Court, but even then it's probably not a concern for most people.
Of course, a "selective liquefy button" could arguably be just as, if not more, concerning when it only applies to buildings and construction materials, but I'm going to go ahead and stand by my theory that Kat is currently the only one in the Court who knows about this right now.
Didn't Jones say they were tracking the kids through their food? In the story arc where a Zimmy Spider makes a boy go nutso over her? I'd imagine the food might contain nanites, but they break down when eaten. Sure, they put nanites (or something) in the food, but that is very explicitly for the purpose of tracking the location of Court residents. Again, Kat said it was just building materials that have this molecular structure - lots of other artificial materials in the Court are excluded from this, including (I presume) the stuff they use to in food to track people.
Edit: Well now I'm just picturing a Bismuth-grown building made entirely out of microscopic tracking devices. Some Court tech stumbles over it and realizes the same technology which the building uses to track it's own location could be used in the Court's intelligence gathering operations...a "tracer farm" is set up, with underpaid workers carefully scraping bits off the walls into sample bags, to be sent to a lab and turned into digestible nanites...But what about when they run out of house?! What then, I ask you?! What then?!
Of course, a "selective liquefy button" could arguably be just as, if not more, concerning when it only applies to buildings and construction materials, but I'm going to go ahead and stand by my theory that Kat is currently the only one in the Court who knows about this right now.
Uh, she's apparently telling everyone present about it right now... Haha, ok my bad. Correction: before she told anyone about it, Kat was the only person in the Court who knew about this feature of their buildings & the Forest wood-stone-dirt substance. In other words, she is the first person to make this discovery since the foundation of the Court, and therefore Llanwellyn probably does not have a button which selectively liquefies buildings. Just to be clear.
Well..unless the Shadow Men under his command somehow managed to bypass Juliette's anti-spying measures, identify Kat's research, steal it, and then apply it to even more advanced functions than the one she's currently demonstrating, all in a very short period of time. But if we trust Shell at all (which I, at least, do), then they're probably too busy with their big moving project to bother doing all that.
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Post by DonDueed on Mar 9, 2022 1:51:51 GMT
Didn't Jones say they were tracking the kids through their food? In the story arc where a Zimmy Spider makes a boy go nutso over her? I'd imagine the food might contain nanites, but they break down when eaten. Uh, she's apparently telling everyone present about it right now... Haha, ok my bad. Correction: before she told anyone about it, Kat was the only person in the Court who knew about this feature of their buildings & the Forest wood-stone-dirt substance. In other words, she is the first person to make this discovery since the foundation of the Court, and therefore Llanwellyn probably does not have a button which selectively liquefies buildings. Just to be clear.
Okay, horrible thought:
Maybe there is such a button, and that's part of the plan. Once all the "right" people have evacuated the Court, the button gets pushed and everything/one left behind gets melted into stem-goo.
They wouldn't do that... would they?
I wish we knew more about this mysterious "Court" we keep talking about. Who are they and what's their long game?
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 9, 2022 2:12:29 GMT
All of the people from outside the Court, assuming the Court imports food, should be made from regular matter all things held equal. The people born in the Court should be mostly or nearly entirely of normal matter, again assuming the Court imports food. Now, if the Court synthesizes food from local material then there would be some vulnerability to some sort of manipulation but etheric powers can affect change in regular matter also, just through different methods and maybe less easily. However, the matter affected by the Seed Bismuth is just the regular stuff of the Wood given additional formation/information. The regular stuff of the Wood is probably also malleable, though I don't know if the Seed makes it more or less so. The forest elves have been living in the Wood for generations and not eating food from outside. They're entirely of local stuff. My intuition is that if the elves left the Court/Wood and lived in the normal world and ate normal food they'd be made of normal matter after one generation or so and any etheric benes or vulnerabilities from the non-normal matter would fade alongside with that.
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Post by jda on Mar 9, 2022 5:23:37 GMT
Next page:
"And checking a bit more, I found a way to create a forest deity. I called them Coyote and Ysengrin, and they are my pets"
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Post by blahzor on Mar 9, 2022 5:30:20 GMT
Next page: "And checking a bit more, I found a way to create a forest deity. I called them Coyote and Ysengrin, and they are my pets" They'll follow my lead and love Annie and have no choice or harm her |
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Post by blahzor on Mar 9, 2022 6:27:34 GMT
Speaking of Bismuth Goo (BG), I wonder how much Diego knew about all of this Could the golems be made of BG? What about their creations? What about the New People? What a can of worms Kat just opened! Worse, she showed it off in public! If I can think of bad things one could do to BG (melting ray, for one example), I have to think the court can think of worse, and perhaps already had. Would explain how they were different to the robots and couldn't recreate themselves |
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Post by drmemory on Mar 9, 2022 6:43:00 GMT
Of course, a "selective liquefy button" could arguably be just as, if not more, concerning when it only applies to buildings and construction materials, but I'm going to go ahead and stand by my theory that Kat is currently the only one in the Court who knows about this right now.
Uh, she's apparently telling everyone present about it right now...
Okay, I'm thinking we're looking at another time loop here. Kat is discovering the seed bismuth, which she will eventually send back to the origin of the Court to grow the Court itself. I really, really hope that is not the way we're going. Kat only did the first time travel thing because it was needed to save her best friend. She was totally stressed out by it, and very fearful that there was a Kat out there who lost Annie. In other words, it was an extreme measure, taken only when things got really bad for her and she could find no alternative. I felt like she almost had a mental breakdown worrying so much about the version of Kat who had a mental breakdown because she lost her Annie!
So... for things to go in a direction where Kat would be willing to contact the Norns again and be the one to start up the court, I have to think that things would have to get quite bad. This time, there are a lot more people and other such involved too - basically the whole court, or at least the New People and the other students and her friends. How bad would things have to get for Kat to be willing to push further into unscientific godhood?
I doubt if that's the way we're going, only because Tom generally doesn't let things get all that bad. Like, mass death and destruction bad. Without that, it would be very out of character for Kat to even be willing to attempt to basically reshape reality. She wouldn't do it unless backed into a corner.
That being said, there are some potentially very bad things in play... The arrow and Omega, to name two. Tom has given us enough foreshadowing and laid the groundwork for a very bad sequence of events. Just because we've never seen him take that route doesn't mean he never will!
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Post by jda on Mar 10, 2022 6:48:30 GMT
Next page: "And checking a bit more, I found a way to create a forest deity. I called them Coyote and Ysengrin, and they are my pets" They'll follow my lead and love Annie and have no choice or harm her " I have instructed them to love you. As I do!" |
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Post by blahzor on Mar 10, 2022 8:20:01 GMT
Another lesson from the past changing the further past after the fact me thinks |
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