From b051c5f99b56d8d25bb0e1a62d95bcaa8f698a67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 22:50:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/003.md | 2 +- writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/003.md | 6 ++++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/003.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/003.md index 70328ed4..034ebb90 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/003.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/codrin/003.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The reprieve lasted until morning when, upon waking, Codrin discovered a note on > * Leadership: myself, True Name > * Scientist: Tycho Brahe > * Recorder: you -> * Representative 1: Why Ask Questions When The Answers Will Not Help of the Ode clade +> * Representative 1: Why Ask Questions Here At The End Of All Things of the Ode clade > > However, we will need one more representative. It would be vanishingly easy for me or Jonas to pick someone who would be fitting for our enterprises, but why do that when it would potentially be much more interesting to let you pick? It ought to be someone outside the Ode clade or your polycule, but beyond that, I find myself fascinated by the idea that you --- you, who have your feet on the ground and head in the clouds --- might pick someone about whom I know nothing. With two Odists on the team already, one of whom is one of my up-tree instances, I am sure you can see that we will have the situation under control from our end. > diff --git a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/003.md b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/003.md index c648cd47..42e96876 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/003.md +++ b/writing/post-self/neviim/local/tycho/003.md @@ -152,11 +152,13 @@ The skunk across from him waved her hand to dismiss the comment. "You will be th He swallowed dryly. -"You will be the scientist," True Name said. "I will be acting in a leadership capacity, having lost the coin-toss with Jonas. Codrin Bălan will be our recorder. Answers Will Not Help will be one of the other representatives, and we are searching for the second." +"You will be the scientist," True Name said. "I will be acting in a leadership capacity, having lost the coin-toss with Jonas. Codrin Bălan will be our recorder. One of my uptree instances, Why Ask Questions Here At The End Of All Things will be one of the other representatives, and we are searching for the second." "Two of you?" -"Sending two members of the same clade who look different will give us an idea of how they view forking." Jonas shrugged. "That's why I cheated to win the coin-toss, at least. I want to see what they do with one skunk Odist and one human Odist." +"Sending two members of the same clade who look different will give us an idea of how they view forking." Jonas shrugged. "That's why I cheated to win the coin-toss, at least. I want to see what they do with one skunk Odist and one human Odist, as Why Ask Questions is." + +"And I will run interference here," Answers Will Not Help added. "I will be learning much the same as Why Ask Questions so that I can interpret messages from the DMZ and Artemis. She is better at working crowds." Tycho nodded. He felt slow, somehow. He felt stupid. It wasn't even that they were speaking about things he didn't understand because he hadn't learned them yet so much as they were speaking as though their actions took place on some higher plane of existence, some place completely inaccessible to him.