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[MageSteff]

[Meta] QL Polaris [le Trout]

[RPGgame]

Re: [Meta] QL Polaris

[jamesi]

Trout only works when you point people to the post which makes theirs trout. I can't find any previous post that talks about how Polaris can't be Quicklinked. (For the record, neither can Otto Griff nor Jerry Montaverde). Care to help us both out?

[Astald]

Still can't quicklink any of them. Maybe it will be addressed in a later update. Here's the post RPGgame was talking about by the way.

[Phaedra]

I think that the fact that we can't quicklink them is intentional.

[META] What's going on in 2005 is a participatory drama -- we can interact with characters, and so on.

But I'm reasonably sure that even though Lucky has redecorated the stage with some nice atmospheric WWII stuff, in the eyes of the game, we are still in 2005 (supported by the fact that the 2005 storyline is still progressing, parallel to the 1945 one).

The 1945 storyline is not a participatory drama. It's just Lucky telling us a story, of something that is already over and done with, that we can't affect. Our role in the 2005 storyline is to be involved and act, but our role in the 1945 one is simply to be an audience, and listen, and learn about the history of the Gun.

Therefore, we, in 2005, can't quicklink (or interact with) 1945 characters that aren't still alive/around in 2005. Only a few characters actually bridge both time periods -- Maurice and Lucky (and potentially Jerry, if he's the same as Jerry the family lawyer). However, as you'll notice, neither Lucky's nor Maurice's profiles have changed to the WWII theme, and Maurice's profile, despite the fact that he is alive in the 1945 storyline, and that his profile is updating, still says "dead."

Because, despite the fact that he was live in 1945, he's still dead as far as we're concerned, here in 2005.

(Also, I think the fact that Jerry has a WWII themed profile indicates that he won't be appearing on the 2005 stage.)

[Ehsan]

[Phaedra]

[rose]

Did all the 1945 people die before Lucky? Is that confirmed anywhere? Does he say something like "I am the only one who made it?" I don't recall that.

It is not clear to me. The profiles say alive, but I think that means the people are alive in 1945- as the story is being told - not now.

At any rate, I think we can't quicklink to them because the WWII part of the story is from 1945 . When we get information it is as if we are seeing it happen, live in 1945.

The 1945 people play no part in the current story of the Gun, Lucy's part of the story. So there is no reason for us to link to them.

ie- we can link to Maurice because he came back into the story of the Gun, none of the other 1945 people have.

[Phaedra]

[MageSteff]

[Phaedra]

[Ehsan]

/me waits for Wednesday, when Jerry will come play poker and Phaedra's head will asplode

I admire your suspension of disbelief

[MageSteff]

[MageSteff]

QL lack fixed