"Cool. My story has given me a deadline of basically a couple of weeks by the end of which I need to either save the world, turn Egorian into ash, or watch Cheliax attack Osirion, and I am guessing it's supposed to be the save-the-world one, Carissa has Wishes I need to be more intelligent now and the headband I need to be more intelligent now and what she wants to do instead is become INT 29 herself right away which, as much as it is extremely Carissa, is not, I think, going to help, because in fact there are not ways to save the world and especially not quickly that don't involve being willing to destroy the multiverse if necessary, and Carissa has an extreme non-nuanced position on not destroying the multiverse where she can't point to a particular quantitative balance of people in Hell versus people not in Hell and is just nope nope nope. Why is the protagonist allowed to be like this? It's supposed to be the villain who has the non-nuanced position where they start out thinking there's no point to you in even talking about it!"
"I digress. What, exactly, am I supposed to do instead of hurting her?"
"Cool. My story has given me a deadline of basically a couple of weeks modulo time dilation, by the end of which I need to either save the world, turn Egorian into ash, or watch Cheliax attack Osirion, and I am guessing it's supposed to be the save-the-world one, Carissa has Wishes I need to be more intelligent now and the headband I need to be more intelligent now and what she wants to do instead is become INT 29 herself right away which, as much as it is extremely Carissa, is not, I think, going to help, because in fact there are not ways to save the world and especially not quickly that don't involve being willing to destroy the multiverse if necessary, and Carissa has an extreme non-nuanced position on not destroying the multiverse where she can't point to a particular quantitative balance of people in Hell versus people not in Hell and is just nope nope nope. Why is the protagonist allowed to be like this? It's supposed to be the villain who has the non-nuanced position where they start out thinking there's no point to you in even talking about it!"
"I digress. What, exactly, am I supposed to do instead of hurting her?"
"Cool. My story has given me a deadline of basically a couple of weeks modulo time dilation, by the end of which I need to either save the world, turn Egorian into ash, or watch Cheliax attack Osirion, and I am guessing it's supposed to be the save-the-world one. Carissa has Wishes I need to be more intelligent now and the headband I need to be more intelligent now and what she wants to do instead is become INT 29 herself right away which, as much as it is extremely Carissa, is not, I think, going to help, because in fact there are not ways to save the world and especially not quickly that don't involve being willing to destroy the multiverse if necessary, and Carissa has an extreme non-nuanced position on not destroying the multiverse where she can't point to a particular quantitative balance of people in Hell versus people not in Hell and is just nope nope nope. Why is the protagonist allowed to be like this? It's supposed to be the villain who has the non-nuanced position where they start out thinking there's no point to you in even talking about it!"
"I digress. What, exactly, am I supposed to do instead of hurting her?"
"Cool. My story has given me a deadline of basically a couple of weeks modulo time dilation, by the end of which I need to either save the world, turn Egorian into ash, or watch Cheliax attack Osirion, and I am guessing it's supposed to be the save-the-world one. Carissa has Wishes I need to be more intelligent now and the headband I need to be more intelligent now and what she wants to do instead is become INT 29 herself right away which, as much as it is extremely Carissa, is not, I think, going to help, because in fact there are not ways to save the world and especially not quickly that don't involve being willing to destroy the multiverse if necessary, and Carissa has an extreme non-nuanced position on not destroying the multiverse where she can't point to a particular quantitative balance of people in Hell versus people not in Hell and instead is just nope nope nope. Why is the protagonist allowed to be like this? It's supposed to be the villain who has the non-nuanced position where they start out thinking there's no point to you in even talking about it!"
"I digress. What, exactly, am I supposed to do instead of hurting her?"
"Cool. My story has given me a deadline of basically a couple of weeks modulo time dilation, by the end of which I need to either save the world, turn Egorian into ash, or watch Cheliax attack Osirion, and I am guessing it's supposed to be the save-the-world one. Carissa has Wishes I need to be more intelligent now and the headband I need to be more intelligent now and what she wants to do instead is become INT 29 herself right away which, as much as it is extremely Carissa, is not, I think, going to help, because in fact there are not ways to save the world and especially not quickly that don't involve being willing to destroy the multiverse if necessary, and Carissa has an extreme non-nuanced position on not destroying the multiverse where she can't point to a particular quantitative balance of people in bad afterlives versus people not in bad afterlives and instead is just nope nope nope. Why is the protagonist allowed to be like this? It's supposed to be the villain who has the non-nuanced position where they start out thinking there's no point to you in even talking about it!"
"I digress. What, exactly, am I supposed to do instead of hurting her?"
"Cool. My story has given me a deadline of basically a couple of weeks modulo time dilation, by the end of which I need to either finish up the main plot, turn Egorian into ash, or watch Cheliax attack Osirion, and I am guessing it's supposed to be finish-the-main-plot. Carissa has Wishes I need to be more intelligent now and the headband I need to be more intelligent now and what she wants to do instead is become INT 29 herself right away which, as much as it is extremely Carissa, is not, I think, going to help, because in fact there are not ways to save the world and especially not quickly that don't involve being willing to destroy the multiverse if necessary, and Carissa has an extreme non-nuanced position on not destroying the multiverse where she can't point to a particular quantitative balance of people in bad afterlives versus people not in bad afterlives and instead is just nope nope nope. Why is the protagonist allowed to be like this? It's supposed to be the villain who has the non-nuanced position where they start out thinking there's no point to you in even talking about it!"
"I digress. What, exactly, am I supposed to do instead of hurting her?"
"Cool. My story has given me a deadline of basically a couple of weeks modulo time dilation, by the end of which I need to either finish up the main plot, turn Egorian into ash, or watch Cheliax attack Osirion, and I am guessing it's supposed to be finish-the-main-plot. Carissa has Wishes I need to be more intelligent now and the headband I need to be more intelligent now and what she wants to do instead is become INT 29 herself right away which, as much as it is extremely Carissa, is not, I think, going to help, because in fact there are not ways to save the world and especially not quickly that don't involve being willing to destroy the multiverse if necessary, and Carissa has an extreme non-nuanced position on not destroying the multiverse where she can't point to a particular quantitative balance of people in bad afterlives versus people not in bad afterlives and instead is just nope nope nope. Why is the protagonist allowed to be like this? It's supposed to be the villain who has the non-nuanced position where they start out thinking there's no point in even talking to you about it!"
"I digress. What, exactly, am I supposed to do instead of hurting her?"
