Subject: The trouble with writing what you know
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Posted on: 2011-08-20 03:26:00 UTC

Yeah. The quantum-adaptive shell is an idea I've toyed around with in a few contexts- basically, the idea is that alters the surface reality of an agent based on the perception of those around them, making them invisible to canons and non-canons alike; they don't expect to see an Agent, so the shell permits them to not see one. The next logical step, then, would be taking this substance and building a being out of it. I used it here because "PPC a thousand years in the future" is the only setting I've ever used conceivably advanced enough to have it.

Unfortunately, I wasn't paying attention and was too interested in my idea to realize how much explaining it required; it might work in a full-length story, but it's too in-depth to put in a short. Likewise, everything I used in there was derived from MTG- again, a bit too far from the mainstream to not require large amounts of exposition that (frankly) I haven't the word count for.

Ah well, I'll do better next time.

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