Technically he would be killing someone with no training investment, but it still sounds too cold-sapped.

I was having trouble with the control prompts to the point of using the Total Recall tech to Dollhouse their actual meeting.

I'm thinking that I could have one agent do a very boring monologue about his backstory, ending with the other asking, "was there anything about what you just said that I should have paid attention to?" I'll be lucky to type a good 300 words of that, much less care if anyone reads the whole thing.

So it does have to do with Descartes - he invented it - but nothing to do with philosophy.

I knew that. I was wondering if zdimensia is also interested in philosophy or just thought the name is cool and asked it in an admittedly indirect way.

The current guideline from the 36 Prompts document is 'For your Permission request, you’ll need to write two short stories. These should be about 400-800 words each. However, it is more important that you present a complete and well-rounded idea than that you slavishly adhere to word counts - a well-written 950 or 350-word piece is far more useful than a rambling and purposeless 600 words.'.

For one thing, having both prompts prepared when you ask for Permission is kind of important, since it shows, among other things, your ability to understand and follow directions. For another, I like to know what I'm giving people the okay to go ahead and do. These requirements are not being met. The one prompt you did write isn't about the main team you're going to be using. Additionally, you left a struck-through and rewritten line of dialogue in there, which tells me it's not even finished—or if it is, that's a pretty glaring editing oversight. You shouldn't need a beta to catch that. All of this is just screaming "not prepared" to me. Lots of ideas is good, but if you want to avoid being one of those people who gets Permission and never does anything with it, you'll have to actually settle on some.

Also, I'd like to point out that targeting people who like you is probably not a great idea. Why don't you try giving them concrit instead? If they like your work, they might actually listen to your advice.

In a nutshell: Permission Denied. Please try again when you have a complete, cohesive request for us.

~Neshomeh