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DR in perspective? theory
Mira:
--- Quote from: groinkick on September 02, 2021, 07:25:52 PM ---Maybe but according to Harry those things in Mac's place adding to 13 are a way of disrupting magic.
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I don't remember him saying that one way or the other, I was pointing out that in contrast at Mac's place everything adds up to the number 13..
Griffyn612:
--- Quote --- There are thirteen stools at the bar and thirteen
tables in the room. Thirteen windows, set up high
in the wall in order to be above ground level, let
some light from the street into the place. Thirteen
mirrors on the walls cast back reflections of the
patrons in dim detail, and give the illusion of more
space. Thirteen wooden columns, carved with
likenesses from folktales and legends of the Old
World, make it difficult to walk around the place
without weaving a circuitous route—they also quite
intentionally break up the flow of random energies,
dispelling to one degree or another the auras that
gather around broody, grumpy wizards and
keeping them from manifesting in unintentional
and colorful ways.
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--- Quote --- I looked around the room for a moment, with its
annoying combination of low ceilings and lazily
spinning fans, its thirteen carved wooden columns
and its thirteen windows, plus thirteen tables
arranged haphazardly to defray and scatter the
residual magical effects that sometimes
surrounded hungry (in other words, angry)
wizards.
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--- Quote --- The bar has thirteen stools at it. There were
thirteen columns of dark wood, each one hand-
carved with swirling leaves and images of beings
of tale and fantasy. Thirteen tables had been
spaced out around the room in an irregular pattern,
and like the columns and bar stools, they had been
intentionally placed that way in order to deflect
and scatter random magical energies.
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Mira:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on September 02, 2021, 10:12:57 PM ---
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Thanks, but if that is so, would Merlin have wanted the same protections on Demonreach?
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 02, 2021, 10:19:42 PM ---Thanks, but if that is so, would Merlin have wanted the same protections on Demonreach?
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I could see him wanting to disrupt the power of the prisoners if possible. But I don't think it'd be necessary.
I also think the thirteenth tunnel thing was a typo.
Second Aristh:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on September 02, 2021, 10:55:01 AM ---A slinky is a circle when looked at along its axis or rotation and thus any figure that can be inscribed within will work. I wish this was an original idea but helical spirals fit the idea of time travel very well and I've seen it in the past somewhere. Maybe here.
I referred to the flat version. As I have stated to Mira, I don't guess when there is text and I suppose I am obsessive compulsive to that point. The text says 13.
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Check out covering spaces in topology if you want to see more about the idea of a helix projecting onto a circle mathematically. That kind of thing inspired Ms Duck's pancake theory of reality years ago.
The text says 12 before it says 13. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Either way, I doubt it'll be relevant story-wise.
--- Quote from: Mira on September 02, 2021, 05:44:28 PM ---As opposed to Mac's Place where everything adds up to 13, and if we are all correct, Mac is an ex-angel if not an angel.
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That's a good point. No reason that the 13 can't be significant for multiple reasons. Non-angelic + magically dispersive.
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