Stick of Confusedness

[tiredlegs]

In which it is not a good idea to tell a confused Navarri about a threat to the Empire, then make them listen to the fall of Terunael for eight hours, without being able to run away.
Contains photographs [sfw].

Comments

[awillathehun]

Just... goodness. Dark, Navarri Isca, and it all makes so much sense.

[tiredlegs]

I am glad somebody thinks it makes sense! Isca mostly just got laughed at when trying to explain afterwards, hence the explanatory models :(

[nocturnalhippy]

Great work, especially with the helpful visual aids :)

[tiredlegs]

Words are confusing! You know where you are with a stick.
Of course, sometimes that's 'the stick is trying to bite your fingers off', but at least that makes more sense than long words!

[rubecso]

I LOVE the visual guide to Isca's thought processes. The way it's almost childishness juxtaposes with the utter ruthlessness with which she was planning out how to kill everyone. Your fic always makes me shiver.

[tiredlegs]

Gosh, thank you.

Ruthless? It's the Virtuous thing to do, needs doing, Isca happened to be in the right place at the right time, and being upset is a distraction from getting on with things.

More worried the next day that she'd been unvirtuous and put the Empire at risk by not getting on with it, though bothering about things that have already happened & can't be changed is a waste of time.

[requiem_17_23]

Hee.

[bouteillebleu]

The photos make this extra-awesome. :D

[requiem_17_23]

DO YOUR THINKING WITH A STICK

[tiredlegs]

Sticks and string: the perfect method for reasoning about emotive and personally relevant high magnitude, low probability events, with limited relevant tacit knowledge, unreliable informants, and poorly quantified uncertainties.
I may have somewhat reprised my Masters thesis.

[requiem_17_23]

It's not a million miles away from what passes for process control on our prototype line, either.

As in, I've literally used the washing line analogy to ballpark the odds of my next process experiment batch working.

(DO YOUR THINKING WITH A STICK / SOMETIMES YOU ALSO NEED STRING is also another instance of feral heptameter.)