thread: 2005-11-14 : Dangerousness
On 2005-11-19, Charles wrote:
Kip (in marginalia):
The Monkey is in their head. Not in a sly and subtle and easily-dismissed-until-it-is-too-late way, in but loudly and threateningly in-your-face and wake-up-screaming-if-you-can-which-you-can???t-because-he-won???t-let-you way. A nigh-omnipotent servitor of the theocratic demon-god of their childhood nightmares is leaving footprints in their brains and threatening their henchman and apprentice. Something must be done to secure this situation. But I do not want this thing to drive Perdix mad; disrupt (as opposed to discombobulate) their relationship with Ilba or Ishkin; immediately remove the Monkey as an antagonist or threat. Any of those would be too far. At least, now they would be too far. Later? That???s what I???m talking about.
Ah, I see what you mean.
Yeah, I always forget that Perdyx is sort-of-local, so their reaction to the Monkeys is as extreme as it could possibly be. Sonata views the Monkeys as interesting and threatening, but not really scary.
Actually, I think that removing Third Monkey from all of our dreams is pretty much going to have to happen, and not that far from now. I don't think Ilba's position can become solid until we get rid of Third Monkey (and Ishta isn't the only one who will be calling for Ilba's head pretty quickly if a powerful Monkey is driving us all mad in our sleep). That doesn't mean that Ilba will have been made safe from Monkey interference (although we'd all like to think so). It doesn't mean that Third Monkey has been completely defeated even. We just need to get to a point where Third Monkey isn't willing to risk a direct confrontation with the mages again, and the mages know how to fend off the penumbras.
I think its doable, and I don't think it will push things too far.
Does any of that seem too far to you?
We definitely don't want to break Ilba's Monkey shotgun, but I think we need to unload it for the moment (possibly by having it go off).
This makes KM go "Agreed."
Unloaded, not broken. And what happened last week was akin to unloading a shotgun, settling down to clean it, and having it go off and blow a hole in the wall just over your friend’s head. Nobody’s hurt, yet, but we gotta deal with that shotgun.
