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week 1, tuesday

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[nahida is looking at her phone after the rulebook update has come out, looking puzzled.



hi mizuki]

[adorabrawler]

[ mood ]

You thinking the same thing I am?

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"How are we supposed to share secrets if we don't really keep them in the first place"...?

[adorabrawler]

[ ... ]

Okay, maybe not exactly that, but close enough.

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...I wonder if we're going to have a new rule like this every week.

[adorabrawler]

I guess it's... another objective for the game?

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Maybe. I'm not sure I understand the point, but... if it's in the rulebook, either we'll get rewarded for doing it, or there will be consequences if we don't.

[adorabrawler]

Maybe it doesn't have to be the biggest secret ever—just something you wouldn't normally share?

[dendroculi]

Oh, I guess that would work.

[she thinks about it. hmmmmm.]

Umm... before I shut down the Akasha, I had the ability to put my consciousness into other people's bodies.

[adorabrawler]

[ uh, ]

Like... possession?

[dendroculi]

I guess... that's the most straightforward way to describe it. Usually I would only put my consciousness into the body of a bionic puppet at the Adventurer's Guild, though. It didn't feel right to do that to a living person...

[adorabrawler]

[ .... huh. ]

Are you like a ghost?

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[she shakes her head]

No... it's more like, umm... how should I put it? [mizuki is a modern, so...] I've heard of something called the internet in some other worlds - is that something that you have?

The Akasha is a network similar to that. But it was maintained with my power, so when people would link their minds up to it, my consciousness could travel across that network into their bodies.

[adorabrawler]

—Whoa.

So you're more like a supercomputer...

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Or the power source for one, anyway... umm, like I said though, I ended up shutting it down.

[adorabrawler]

Why, was it no good?

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Ultimately, it was no good for Sumeru's growth... instead of fully exploring all the possibilities on their own, people would ask the Akasha for an answer and wouldn't go any further than that. It stifled people's curiosity and creativity.

[adorabrawler]

So they became too reliant on it...

Maybe the internet isn't so different. I always look up a bunch of stuff I don't know the answer to either.

[dendroculi]

Not necessarily. If it's used as a reference, and you're using it to learn new things, that's not wrong... it would just be like looking up something in a book, before you take what you've learned and apply it to what you're doing.

But the way the Akasha was being used... the average person didn't take that last step. And some of the people at higher levels would misuse it.

[adorabrawler]

They must've been in for one heck of a rude awakening when it went down.

[dendroculi]

It's been a bit of an adjustment, but... people seem to be handling it pretty well.

[adorabrawler]

Well, they gotta... What do you do after that, anyway?

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They learn new things the same way anyone else would in the other nations... through books, or classes, or even hands-on experience.

And now people don't say "I'm a potter, so I don't need information about fishing"... I think it's better this way.

[adorabrawler]

... Well, I don't normally need to know about fishing, either...

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Right, maybe not. But if you ever needed to, you'd go looking for that information, wouldn't you?

The way it was before, people in Sumeru wouldn't... they'd just conclude it wasn't information they needed to know, even if a situation where it would be helpful came up, and would shy away from learning new things.