Keltham is a bit startled that Carissa would just tell him that Pilar ended up in Elysium. That should've been something he had to figure out on his own by talking to Pilar, or investigating her, or something. Pilar should've been left more mysterious than that until their first date, or if he did something to appeal to her, if those tropes were governing here. Call it maybe 4 times as likely on the theory 'Chelish Governance asked Pilar 'what" and found out a weird thing and promptly and sensibly told Carissa so she could tell me' as on the theory 'this is an ero-LARP'. With possible amendments if the Chaotic Good thing turns out to be itself much more mysterious; but still, Keltham making the first discovery that starts the mystery trail should require that he start Pilar's route, like, at all? Or maybe that happened when she took a +3 vicious nasty bigsword for him.
But still a surprise, not advance-predicted, not the main thing the theory obviously says. You don't want to rationalize those out the window. Maybe call it 3:1 instead of 6:1, though.
"Well, huh," Keltham says, "the details there would be a bit hard to explain, but that's some small evidence against the reasoning system I was using to infer that one of the girls is a secret Zon-Kuthon cleric, or that one of the more unusual girls in class will have the 'being-forced' fetish. Not decisive or anything, but noticeable jolt. You've just got to keep track of that sort of thing over time, which is what I'd otherwise have planned to lecture on next, the Law for accumulating pieces of evidence that aren't individually decisive, until they add up to something."
"Asmodia's going to - end up pretty behind, in a week, at the rate we were going. I'm not sure how much you can recover from that sort of thing by reading notes, in a situation like this one... well, maybe somebody else could teach Asmodia, to help solidify the material in their own minds by teaching it, that's a big part of the reason why older kids teach younger ones in dath ilan. Still, that'd be a big chunk of someone's time. Depending on how expensive a seventh-circle Regenerate is... well, except that they are going to do it at all, eventually, so we're not paying from zero. I probably want to expend some political capital on it happening earlier, if the project is considered competitive with war demands at all."
Keltham is a bit startled that Carissa would just tell him that Pilar ended up in Elysium. That should've been something he had to figure out on his own by talking to Pilar, or investigating her, or something. Pilar should've been left more mysterious than that until their first date, or if he did something to appeal to her, if those tropes were governing here. Call it maybe 4 times as likely on the theory 'Chelish Governance asked Pilar 'what" and found out a weird thing and promptly and sensibly told Carissa so she could tell me' as on the theory 'this is an ero-LARP'. With possible amendments if the Chaotic Good thing turns out to be itself much more mysterious; but still, Keltham making the first discovery that starts the mystery trail should require that he start Pilar's route, like, at all? Or maybe that happened when she took a +3 vicious nasty bigsword for him.
But still a surprise, not advance-predicted, not the main thing the theory obviously says. You don't want to rationalize those out the window. Maybe call it 3:1 instead of 6:1, though.
"Well, huh," Keltham says, "the details there would be a bit hard to explain, but that's some small evidence against the reasoning system I was using to infer that one of the girls is a secret Zon-Kuthon cleric, or that one of the more unusual girls in class will have the 'being-forced' fetish. Not decisive or anything, but noticeable jolt. You've just got to keep track of that sort of thing over time, which is what I'd otherwise have planned to lecture on next, the Law for accumulating pieces of evidence that aren't individually decisive, until they add up to something."
"Asmodia's going to - end up pretty behind, in a week, at the rate we were going. I'm not sure how much you can recover from that sort of thing by reading notes, in a situation like this one... well, maybe somebody else could teach Asmodia, to help solidify the material in their own minds by teaching it, that's a big part of the reason why older kids teach younger ones in dath ilan. Still, that'd be a big chunk of someone's time. Depending on how expensive a seventh-circle Regenerate is... well, except that they are going to do it at all, eventually, so we're not paying from zero. I probably want to expend some political capital on it happening earlier, if the project is considered competitive with war demands at all."
"I could teach a class today, for sure. Whether I should... maybe not so much, if the view-from-above says that somebody in my position is supposed to take one day off, and it probably does."
Keltham is a bit startled that Carissa would just tell him that Pilar ended up in Elysium. That should've been something he had to figure out on his own by talking to Pilar, or investigating her, or something. Pilar should've been left more mysterious than that until their first date, or until he did something to appeal to her, if those tropes were governing here. Call it maybe 4 times as likely on the theory 'Chelish Governance asked Pilar 'what" and found out a weird thing and promptly and sensibly told Carissa so she could tell me' as on the theory 'this is an ero-LARP'. With possible amendments if the Chaotic Good thing turns out to be itself much more mysterious; but still, Keltham making the first discovery that starts the mystery trail should require that he start Pilar's route, like, at all? Or maybe that happened when she took a +3 vicious nasty bigsword for him.
But still a surprise, not advance-predicted, not the main thing the theory obviously says. You don't want to rationalize those out the window. Maybe call it 3:1 instead of 6:1, though.
"Well, huh," Keltham says, "the details there would be a bit hard to explain, but that's some small evidence against the reasoning system I was using to infer that one of the girls is a secret Zon-Kuthon cleric, or that one of the more unusual girls in class will have the 'being-forced' fetish. Not decisive or anything, but noticeable jolt. You've just got to keep track of that sort of thing over time, which is what I'd otherwise have planned to lecture on next, the Law for accumulating pieces of evidence that aren't individually decisive, until they add up to something."
"Asmodia's going to - end up pretty behind, in a week, at the rate we were going. I'm not sure how much you can recover from that sort of thing by reading notes, in a situation like this one... well, maybe somebody else could teach Asmodia, to help solidify the material in their own minds by teaching it, that's a big part of the reason why older kids teach younger ones in dath ilan. Still, that'd be a big chunk of someone's time. Depending on how expensive a seventh-circle Regenerate is... well, except that they are going to do it at all, eventually, so we're not paying from zero. I probably want to expend some political capital on it happening earlier, if the project is considered competitive with war demands at all."
"I could teach a class today, for sure. Whether I should... maybe not so much, if the view-from-above says that somebody in my position is supposed to take one day off, and it probably does."
Keltham is a bit startled that Carissa would just tell him that Pilar ended up in Elysium. That should've been something he had to figure out on his own by talking to Pilar, or investigating her, or something. Pilar should've been left more mysterious than that until their first date, or until he did something to appeal to her, if those tropes were governing here. Call it maybe 6 times as likely on the theory 'Chelish Governance asked Pilar 'what" and found out a weird thing and promptly and sensibly told Carissa so she could tell me' as on the theory 'this is an ero-LARP'. With possible amendments if the Chaotic Good thing turns out to be itself much more mysterious; but still, Keltham making the first discovery that starts the mystery trail should require that he start Pilar's route, like, at all? Or maybe that happened when she took a +3 vicious nasty bigsword for him.
But still a surprise, not advance-predicted, not the main thing the theory obviously says. You don't want to rationalize those out the window. Maybe call it 3:1 instead of 6:1, though.
"Well, huh," Keltham says, "the details there would be a bit hard to explain, but that's some small evidence against the reasoning system I was using to infer that one of the girls is a secret Zon-Kuthon cleric, or that one of the more unusual girls in class will have the 'being-forced' fetish. Not decisive or anything, but noticeable jolt. You've just got to keep track of that sort of thing over time, which is what I'd otherwise have planned to lecture on next, the Law for accumulating pieces of evidence that aren't individually decisive, until they add up to something."
"Asmodia's going to - end up pretty behind, in a week, at the rate we were going. I'm not sure how much you can recover from that sort of thing by reading notes, in a situation like this one... well, maybe somebody else could teach Asmodia, to help solidify the material in their own minds by teaching it, that's a big part of the reason why older kids teach younger ones in dath ilan. Still, that'd be a big chunk of someone's time. Depending on how expensive a seventh-circle Regenerate is... well, except that they are going to do it at all, eventually, so we're not paying from zero. I probably want to expend some political capital on it happening earlier, if the project is considered competitive with war demands at all."
"I could teach a class today, for sure. Whether I should... maybe not so much, if the view-from-above says that somebody in my position is supposed to take one day off, and it probably does."
Keltham is a bit startled that Carissa would just tell him that Pilar ended up in Elysium. That should've been something he had to figure out on his own by talking to Pilar, or investigating her, or something. Pilar should've been left more mysterious than that until their first date, or until he did something to appeal to her, if those tropes were governing here. Call it maybe 6 times as likely on the theory 'Chelish Governance asked Pilar 'what" and found out a weird thing and promptly and sensibly told Carissa so she could tell me' as on the theory 'this is an ero-LARP'. With possible amendments if the Chaotic Good thing turns out to be itself much more mysterious; but still, Keltham making the first discovery that starts the mystery trail should require that he start Pilar's route, like, at all? Or maybe that happened when she took a +3 vicious nasty bigsword for him.
But still a surprise, not advance-predicted, not the main thing the theory obviously says. You don't want to rationalize those out the window. Maybe call it 3:1 instead of 6:1, though.
"Well, huh," Keltham says, "the details there would be a bit hard to explain, but that's some small evidence against the reasoning system I was using to infer that one of the girls is a secret Zon-Kuthon cleric, or that one of the more unusual girls in class will have the 'being-forced' fetish. Not decisive or anything, but noticeable jolt. The key is knowing how to keep track of that sort of thing over time, which is what I'd otherwise have planned to lecture on next, the Law for accumulating pieces of evidence that aren't individually decisive, until they add up to something."
"Asmodia's going to - end up pretty behind, in a week, at the rate we were going. I'm not sure how much you can recover from that sort of thing by reading notes, in a situation like this one... well, maybe somebody else could teach Asmodia, to help solidify the material in their own minds by teaching it, that's a big part of the reason why older kids teach younger ones in dath ilan. Still, that'd be a big chunk of someone's time. Depending on how expensive a seventh-circle Regenerate is... well, except that they are going to do it at all, eventually, so we're not paying from zero. I probably want to expend some political capital on it happening earlier, if the project is considered competitive with war demands at all."
"I could teach a class today, for sure. Whether I should... maybe not so much, if the view-from-above says that somebody in my position is supposed to take one day off, and it probably does."
Keltham is a bit startled that Carissa would just tell him that Pilar ended up in Elysium. That should've been something he had to figure out on his own by talking to Pilar, or investigating her, or something. Pilar should've been left more mysterious than that until their first date, or until he did something to appeal to her, if those tropes were governing here. Call it maybe 6 times as likely on the theory 'Chelish Governance asked Pilar "what" and found out a weird thing and promptly and sensibly told Carissa so she could tell me' as on the theory 'this is an ero-LARP'. With possible amendments if the Chaotic Good thing turns out to be itself much more mysterious; but still, Keltham making the first discovery that starts the mystery trail should require that he start Pilar's route, like, at all? Or maybe that happened when she took a +3 vicious nasty bigsword for him.
But still a surprise, not advance-predicted, not the main thing the theory obviously says. You don't want to rationalize those out the window. Maybe call it 3:1 instead of 6:1, though.
"Well, huh," Keltham says, "the details there would be a bit hard to explain, but that's some small evidence against the reasoning system I was using to infer that one of the girls is a secret Zon-Kuthon cleric, or that one of the more unusual girls in class will have the 'being-forced' fetish. Not decisive or anything, but noticeable jolt. The key is knowing how to keep track of that sort of thing over time, which is what I'd otherwise have planned to lecture on next, the Law for accumulating pieces of evidence that aren't individually decisive, until they add up to something."
"Asmodia's going to - end up pretty behind, in a week, at the rate we were going. I'm not sure how much you can recover from that sort of thing by reading notes, in a situation like this one... well, maybe somebody else could teach Asmodia, to help solidify the material in their own minds by teaching it, that's a big part of the reason why older kids teach younger ones in dath ilan. Still, that'd be a big chunk of someone's time. Depending on how expensive a seventh-circle Regenerate is... well, except that they are going to do it at all, eventually, so we're not paying from zero. I probably want to expend some political capital on it happening earlier, if the project is considered competitive with war demands at all."
"I could teach a class today, for sure. Whether I should... maybe not so much, if the view-from-above says that somebody in my position is supposed to take one day off, and it probably does."
