Keltham does notice!  But the earlier sight of what are obviously sex-work shops, in a city supposedly too prude for written pornography, has now started Keltham down the road to inner panic by a completely different route.

Can he - is there any way, if the Ordinary world is true at all, could the Ordinary world prove itself to him - obviously, by having enough erotic novels written showing the character viewpoint of a masochist - but Keltham really hasn't been having much luck with his previous literary queries, as is, of course, not a very good sign at all, but it does mean that the surviving Ordinary worlds are just like that - how would Fennelosa even find a shop that carries church-disliked books, this city has no searchable index and that shop might not be listed in the regular index even if the city was searchable - and then that shop will only have four erotic novels written from the viewpoint of a masochist and that'll be the same quantity that Conspiracy faked for Chelish history books -

If Carissa is right then like half the people in his field of vision are genuine masochists but how does Keltham verify that, in the presence of mind control and illusions and mindreading and alternatephysics that the Conspiracy could just be lying to him about, is there any equivalent of a move-countermove search-tree that - the sex shops could be real, the Conspiracy has no reason to show those to him, after making that claim about pornography, if they're not in a real city or at least not basing all this on a real city - but if the Conspiracy passed the test with that priest of Sarenrae, they've obviously got control of questions and answers - any question Keltham knows how to ask a masochist, is one whose Keltham-sought answer the Conspiracy can guess, especially if they're reading his mind - there'd have to be some way to ask a question that only a real masochist could answer quickly, that somebody pretending to be a fake masochist couldn't answer quickly, and whose answer Keltham can verify after the fact, without even knowing beforehand himself to expose to mindreaders -

Nothing like that exists, obviously, or is going to exist, and if Keltham hares off on that, it gives the Conspiracy more time to fake things inside that scroll shop.

He should just go ahead and try the scroll shop, where things might actually work, and consider what to do later on the impossible problem of checking for masochism when there's no reasonable way to locate a high concentration of banned books inside Ordinary, when Ordinary can't even locate a high concentration of history books -

Keltham does notice!  But the earlier sight of what are obviously sex-work shops, in a city supposedly too prude for written pornography, has now started Keltham down the road to inner panic by a completely different route.

Can he - is there any way, if the Ordinary world is true at all, could the Ordinary world prove itself to him - obviously, by having enough erotic novels written showing the character viewpoint of a masochist - but Keltham really hasn't been having much luck with his previous literary queries, as is, of course, not a very good sign at all, but it does mean that the surviving Ordinary worlds are just like that - how would Fennelosa even find a shop that carries church-disliked books, this city has no searchable index and that shop might not be listed in the regular index even if the city was searchable - and then that shop will only have four erotic novels written from the viewpoint of a masochist and that'll be the same quantity that Conspiracy faked for Chelish history books -

If Carissa is right then like half the people in his field of vision are genuine masochists but how does Keltham verify that, in the presence of mind control and illusions and mindreading and alternatephysics that the Conspiracy could just be lying to him about, is there any equivalent of a move-countermove search-tree that - the sex shops could be real, the Conspiracy has no reason to show those to him, after making that claim about pornography, if they're not in a real city or at least not basing all this on a real city - but if the Conspiracy passed the test with that priest of Sarenrae, they've obviously got control of questions and answers - any question Keltham knows how to ask a masochist, is one whose Keltham-sought answer the Conspiracy can guess, especially if they're reading his mind - there'd have to be some way to ask a question that only a real masochist could answer quickly, that somebody pretending to be a fake masochist couldn't answer quickly, and whose answer Keltham can verify after the fact, without even knowing beforehand himself to expose to mindreaders -

Nothing like that exists, obviously, or is going to exist, and if Keltham hares off on that, it gives the Conspiracy more time to fake things inside that scroll shop.

He should just go ahead and try the scroll shop, where things might actually work, and consider what to do later on the impossible problem of checking for masochism when there's no reasonable way to locate a high concentration of Ill-Advised books inside Ordinary, when Ordinary can't even locate a high concentration of Chelish history books -

Keltham does notice!  But the earlier sight of what are obviously sex-work shops, in a city supposedly too prude for written pornography, has now started Keltham down the road to inner panic by a completely different route.

Can he - is there any way, if the Ordinary world is true at all, could the Ordinary world prove itself to him - obviously, by having enough erotic novels written showing the character viewpoint of a masochist - but Keltham really hasn't been having much luck with his previous literary queries, as is, of course, not a very good sign at all, but it does mean that the surviving Ordinary worlds are just like that - how would Fennelosa even find a shop that carries church-disliked books, this city has no searchable index and that shop might not be listed in the regular index even if the city was searchable - and then that shop will only have four erotic novels written from the viewpoint of a masochist and that'll be the same quantity that Conspiracy faked for Chelish history books -

If Carissa is right then like half the people in his field of vision are genuine masochists but how does Keltham verify that, in the presence of mind control and illusions and mindreading and alternatephysics that the Conspiracy could just be lying to him about, is there any equivalent of a move-countermove search-tree that - the sex shops could be real, the Conspiracy has no reason to show those to him, after making that claim about pornography, if they're not in a real city or at least not basing all this on a real city - but if the Conspiracy passed the test with that priest of Sarenrae, they've obviously got control of questions and answers - any question Keltham knows how to ask a masochist, is one whose Keltham-sought answer the Conspiracy can guess, especially if they're reading his mind - there'd have to be some way to ask a question that only a real masochist could answer quickly, that somebody pretending to be a fake masochist couldn't answer quickly, and whose answer Keltham can verify after the fact, without himself knowing beforehand to expose to mindreaders -

Nothing like that exists, obviously, or is going to exist, and if Keltham hares off on that, it gives the Conspiracy more time to fake things inside that scroll shop.

He should just go ahead and try the scroll shop, where things might actually work, and consider what to do later on the impossible problem of checking for masochism when there's no reasonable way to locate a high concentration of Ill-Advised books inside Ordinary, when Ordinary can't even locate a high concentration of Chelish history books -

Keltham does notice!  But the earlier sight of what are obviously sex-work shops, in a city supposedly too prude for written pornography, has now started Keltham down the road to inner panic by a completely different route.

Can he - is there any way, if the Ordinary world is true at all, could the Ordinary world prove itself to him - obviously, by having enough erotic novels written showing the character viewpoint of a masochist - but Keltham really hasn't been having much luck with his previous literary queries, as is, of course, not a very good sign at all, but it does mean that the surviving Ordinary worlds are just like that - how would Fennelosa even find a shop that carries church-disliked books, this city has no searchable index and that shop might not be listed in the regular index even if the city was searchable - and then that shop will only have four erotic novels written from the viewpoint of a masochist and that'll be the same quantity that Conspiracy faked for Chelish history books -

If Carissa is right then like half the people in his field of vision are genuine masochists but how does Keltham verify that, in the presence of mind control and illusions and mindreading and alternatephysics that the Conspiracy could just be lying to him about, is there any equivalent of a move-countermove search-tree that - the sex shops could be real, the Conspiracy has no reason to show those to him, after making that claim about pornography, if they're not in a real city or at least not basing all this on a real city - but if the Conspiracy passed the test with that priest of Sarenrae, they've obviously got control of questions and answers - any question Keltham knows how to ask a masochist, is one whose Keltham-sought answer the Conspiracy can guess, especially if they're reading his mind - there'd have to be some way to ask a question that only a real masochist could answer quickly, that somebody pretending to be a fake masochist couldn't answer quickly, and whose answer Keltham can verify after the fact, without himself knowing the answer beforehand to expose to mindreaders -

Nothing like that is going to exist, obviously, and if Keltham hares off on that, it gives the Conspiracy more time to fake things inside that scroll shop.

He should just go ahead and try the scroll shop, where things might actually work, and consider what to do later on the impossible problem of checking for masochism when there's no reasonable way to locate a high concentration of Ill-Advised books inside Ordinary, when Ordinary can't even locate a high concentration of Chelish history books -

Keltham does notice!  But the earlier sight of what are obviously sex-work shops, in a city supposedly too prude for written pornography, has now started Keltham down the road to inner panic by a completely different route.

Can he - is there any way, if the Ordinary world is true at all, could the Ordinary world prove itself to him - obviously, by having enough erotic novels written showing the character viewpoint of a masochist - but Keltham hasn't been having much luck with his previous literary queries, as is, of course, not a very good sign at all, but it does mean that the surviving Ordinary worlds are just like that - how would Fennelosa even find a shop that carries church-disliked books, this city has no searchable index and that shop might not be listed in the regular index even if the city was searchable - and then that shop will only have four erotic novels written from the viewpoint of a masochist and that'll be the same quantity that Conspiracy faked for Chelish history books -

If Carissa is right then half the people in his field of vision are genuine masochists.  But how does Keltham verify that, in the presence of mind control and illusions and mindreading and alternatephysics that the Conspiracy could just be lying to him about?  Is there any equivalent of a move-countermove search-tree that - the sex shops could be real, the Conspiracy has no reason to show those to him, after making that claim about pornography, if they're not in a real city or at least not basing all this on a real city - but if the Conspiracy passed the test with that priest of Sarenrae, they've obviously got control of questions and answers - any question Keltham knows how to ask a masochist, is one whose Keltham-sought answer the Conspiracy can guess, especially if they're reading his mind - there'd have to be some way to ask a question that only a real masochist could answer quickly, that somebody pretending to be a fake masochist couldn't answer quickly, and whose answer Keltham can verify after the fact, without himself knowing the answer beforehand to expose to mindreaders -

Nothing like that is going to exist, obviously, and if Keltham hares off on that, it gives the Conspiracy more time to fake things inside that scroll shop.

He should just go ahead and try the scroll shop, where things might actually work, and consider what to do later on the impossible problem of checking for masochism when there's no reasonable way to locate a high concentration of Ill-Advised books inside Ordinary, when Ordinary can't even locate a high concentration of Chelish history books -