[Dragaera] it's late and i'm a little punchy

[Rebecca Harbison via Dragaera]

One would think Paarfi would have figured it out, having the benefit of
writing from hindsight, even if Paarfi thought Adron thought that was what
he was doing.

Of course, now I have two ideas:

1. Either it was a Y2K bug that didn't account for an Emperor dying without
the Cycle changing.  I don't know what Adron's spell would do if the Orb
itself was having trouble figuring out who should be Emperor, but probably
nothing good.  (My working assumption for Elder Sorcery when it breaks.)  I
suppose the question would be is 'what would have happened if someone
wasn't throwing Elder Sorcery around, given how much energy the Orb filters
every hour of every day'.

2. Adron's spell was built on the assumption that him gaining the Orb would
change the Cycle, and he was wrong.  In which case, the spell would have
failed even if Tortaalik had been alive at the time, and Adron isn't as hot
a wizard as he thought he was.

The problem of Mario killing the Emperor while Adron was casting the spell
might not have done what Adron thought it did, but it might have compounded
an existing uncertainty enough to cause problems. (Either because Adron
thought he had that sort of error, or because all the Elder Sorcery mucking
with the Orb meant it couldn't enter whatever 'Safe Mode' is for magical
artifacts.)

-- Rebecca

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Scott Schultz via Dragaera <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > rone via Dragaera
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> > Subject: [Dragaera] it's late and i'm a little punchy
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> > Given that the Lesser Sea was the result of a high-energy clash between
> the
> > Dragon heir and the new Dragon emperor being the same person, could it be
> > fairly called the catastrophic result of a Large Adron Collider?
> >
> > rone
>
> LOL, good one.
>
> However - You've provided an opening for me to mention something that has
> come back into my forebrain since the topic of Adron popped up.
>
> It could not have happened for the reasons given by Paarfi. Either he is
> mistaken, hiding something, or the Orb really did have a Y2K bug.
>
> Adron was never the Emperor, not even for the sixty seconds that he took to
> teleport Khaavren and company to safety. The feedback loop would never have
> happened because *the Cycle had not turned*.
>
> According to its normal function, the Orb would have sought out the next
> Phoenix in line after Tortaalick. The only way for the Orb to attempt to
> make Adron emperor, establishing the feedback loop that made Adron
> attempting to steal the Orb from himself, would be for the Orb to be
> *wrong*
> about the current phase of the Cycle.
>
> That should not be possible. The Y2K bug is real.
>
> I wonder if the Lords of Judgment addressed the problem when they upgraded
> the Orb?
>
>
>
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