"To be clear, here, Gregoria, the thing I was contemplating doing was having this hypothetical government Splendour-augment take a run at me under controlled conditions.  Not doing the thing with the succubus anytime soon."

"Somebody bip me at lunchtime or dinnertime to see if I can make any headway about recounting one of the short stories from a Reckless Investor Miyalsvor continuity.  Uh, Miyalsvor is someone from a relatively primitive planet at dath ilan's tech level, who would otherwise have died the true death but gets rescued by aliens, because it's only legal for them to do that if you're otherwise going to die for real, and he gets out among the stars and tries to sell some dath ilani fiction there, and an evil investment group tries to steal his copyright on the fiction, but Miyalsvor manages to turn the tables on them and take control of that entire investment group, and then he goes around from star to star investing in alien companies and having all sorts of fascinating adventures where he has to stop his investments from going wrong."

"The reason I mention this is that Reckless Investor Miyalsvor is considered one of the best examples in dath ilani fiction of an author managing to depict an incredibly persuasive character who has to do the equivalent of passing the Keeper test, talk his way out of prisons and so on.  So maybe if I can remember the dialogue closely enough, I can retell one of the short stories and have that convey something... this sounds more and more implausible the longer I talk about it, but maybe worth trying just to see how badly I fail."

"To be clear, here, Gregoria, the thing I was contemplating doing was having this hypothetical government Splendour-augment take a run at me under controlled conditions.  Not doing the thing with the succubus anytime soon."

"Somebody bip me at lunchtime or dinnertime to see if I can make any headway about recounting one of the short stories from a Reckless Investor Miyalsvor continuity.  Uh, Miyalsvor is someone from a relatively primitive planet at dath ilan's tech level, who would otherwise have died the true death but gets rescued by aliens, because it's only legal for them to do that if you're otherwise going to die for real, and he gets out among the stars and tries to sell some dath ilani fiction there, and a defecting investment group tries to steal his copyright on the fiction, but Miyalsvor manages to turn the tables on them and take control of that entire investment group, and then he goes around from star to star investing in alien companies and having all sorts of fascinating adventures where he has to stop his investments from going wrong."

"The reason I mention this is that Reckless Investor Miyalsvor is considered one of the best examples in dath ilani fiction of an author managing to depict an incredibly persuasive character who has to do the equivalent of passing the Keeper test, talk his way out of prisons and so on.  So maybe if I can remember the dialogue closely enough, I can retell one of the short stories and have that convey something... this sounds more and more implausible the longer I talk about it, but maybe worth trying just to see how badly I fail."

"To be clear, here, Gregoria, the thing I was contemplating doing was having this hypothetical government Splendour-augment take a run at me under controlled conditions.  Not doing the thing with the succubus anytime soon."

"Somebody bip me at lunchtime or dinnertime to see if I can make any headway about recounting one of the short stories from a Reckless Investor Miyalsvor continuity.  Uh, Miyalsvor is someone from a relatively primitive planet at dath ilan's tech level, who would otherwise have died the true death but gets rescued by aliens, because it's only legal for them to do that if you're otherwise going to die for real, and he gets out among the stars and tries to sell some dath ilani fiction there, and a defecting investment group tries to steal his copyright on the fiction, but Miyalsvor manages to turn the tables on them and take control of that entire investment group, and then he goes around from star to star investing in alien companies and having all sorts of fascinating adventures where he has to stop his investments from going wrong."

"The reason I mention this is that Reckless Investor Miyalsvor is considered one of the best examples in dath ilani fiction of an author managing to depict an incredibly persuasive character who has to do the equivalent of passing the Keeper test, talk his way out of holding cells and so on.  So maybe if I can remember the dialogue closely enough, I can retell one of the short stories and have that convey something... this sounds more and more implausible the longer I talk about it, but maybe worth trying just to see how badly I fail."