That’s how Wanda got caught by Olive, wasn’t it? Finding a dress with her insignia on it, putting it on…
That, and I recall Wanda and Jillian had some… history.
After the battle, as Isaac points out today, the Magic Kingdom will be at war with Gobwin Knob. So, conferring with GK’s chief warlord wouldn’t be prudent.
Also, the Great Minds believe that Charlie can eavesdrop on thinkagrams (which we have evidence is true). That’s why they want to take him back to their playground to talk – it’s secure from Charlie. If they wait to thinkagram Parson after the battle, Charlie will be listening.
A few problems with that. First, the Magic Kingdom as a whole does not appear to be a single Side: If it were, then we wouldn’t be seeing the conflict between MK-affiliated casters we’re seeing now. Second, Charlie surely already knows that the Great Minds want to meet with Parson: Even if he didn’t already, he’s got boots on the ground right there watching it happen, so he’ll find out soon enough. So what’s the harm in Isaac Thinkagraming Parson to set up a later meeting in the playground? Even if Charlie intercepted it, he wouldn’t learn anything he didn’t already know.
I think we have to take Isaac at his word when he says going through the portal to Spacerock “will make your side an enemy of the Magic Kingdom itself”. The casters of the MK are barbarians, but know they have to cooperate to survive, and know they can’t be seen as a threat by other Sides or they won’t survive.
If Parson militarizes the MK, those in the MK perceived to be helping him will get ganged-up upon by the others. The Great Minds know they can’t afford to suffer that. And if they try to do so secretly, they know that Charlie will be able to reveal that they did so.
And if even then they try to convince Parson to come to a rendezvouz at their playground… how the heck would he expect to get there, past all the hostile casters that will be in the MK waiting for him?
At the end of the day, though, the Great Minds are on-board with the plan for the Perfect Warlord to break the things about Erfworld that they think suck. Their own cushy existence is not one of those things. Parson’s current plan threatens their cushy existence.
In the notes section, the identity of one of the Carnymancers is revealed:
I assume that’s the guy with the beard next to Jojo.
Update calls out Charlie’s hacking the eyebooks. Interesting.
I really wonder why this needed a Parson’s Klog to tell us, though. We already knew Charlie hacked the eyebooks. We already strongly suspect he’s capable of hacking thinkagrams. And we’ve already seen it implied that the Great Minds think he can hack much more than that even.
Prior Klogs have been used to convey world/system information that is better suited to exposition than to being conveyed in dialog. This information has already be conveyed in dialog. So why do we need it in exposition, too?
The image only shows the first page of the Klog; did you read the text underneath? Parson’s book (and only Parson’s book, among all eyebooks) now has the capability of projecting 3D models. Which, so far, he’s only used to make his tactical wargaming scenarios a little easier. But what are the limits on the models he can project? Can he use his book to make a full-scale model? Does anyone else know or suspect he has this capability? He already has one gadget that makes him effectively a Mathemancer; is he now effectively a Foolamancer, too?
Update.
“Faceplant”. Heh.
Methinks Parson is getting a tad miffed at Maggie not telling him things he needs to know (as indeed the recent Klog implied).
I like the storylines but I guess I’ve gotten to the point where I’d like them more individually.
Back to the battleground, with Lady Sylvia. And a bit more about Carnymancy, although I’m not clear on what it’s being implied that Jojo did there.
If this was Oots her declaration of invulnerability would indicate she was toast…
With carnymancers being untrustworthy, I’m guessing that Jojo sold someone else out to help Sylvia. Well, from past events, he definitely sold out lots of people in the future. And it’s been implied that he works for Charlie.
I’m very curious now.
Jojo said he made a “trade”. We know from the prequel story that Luckamancy basically trades one unit/side’s rolls for someone else’s… but that’s Luckamancy, not Carnymancy. Carnymancy is aligned with the Fate axis, though, so maybe he traded her Fate for someone else’s? Unaroyal seems to have gotten a bummer Fate, but doing that would have been contrary to Jojo’s Duty, no matter how untrustworthy carnymancers are supposed to be.
Oh, boop. He could have shifted the death fate into the scroll that he’s trying to pass on to our Lord Hampster.
I don’t think we’re meant to understand what Jojo did, yet. It’s meant to set up something else, that we’ll see some time later.
I dunno. I have the sense that when Jojo had that encounter with Sylvia, it was a LONG time before anyone had plans about her becoming Lady Sylvia, Decrypted Warlord of Gobwin Knob.
I do think it’s possible he was setting her up to be a sleeper agent for Charlie, to be triggered at some later time, as the opportunity presented itself.
Oh, yes. I’m sure we’re going to be teased for a for a long while before all becomes clear. And that’s not a bad thing.
confirmation that the real Slately fell, also Parson claims no plan for this fight.