comment: | [[Heaven]] brainwashed judge wants to catalog all the PwoR stuff, get rid of stuff that doesn't fit his system, maybe do similar things with secrets and people. * Wants to write a list of all the items, quests, people in game, as a Joe Foley's notebook/information broker sort of thing. * There should probably be some criteria and have them want to destroy things that don't fit (via wogly or a destructive Item) ** Or exile them to the real world. * Wants to take over. * Wants to manipulate ragged thing criteria * Question: What is more powerful than knowledge? ** What lies outside the box? ** What makes knowledge empty? ** Answer1: When it is not filed in its proper place. (Light?) ** Answer2: There will always be something that does not fit. (Dark) claimedby: Kendra stuff: | [[Heaven]], [[Scientist]], [[Math]], [[Trivia]], [[Local]], [[LinnaeusFake]] name: Carl Linn\ae{}us player: kbeth gender: f contacts: | \HeavenBuilder{Person, Not Living, Robotic, Subservient, Cleans.} \AlexanderTheGreat{Person, Living, Human, Violent, Irrational.} \SecretWogly{Person, Living, Human, Calm, Mysterious.} \EndPwoR{Person, Living, Human, Unwell, Nihilist.} body: |- \cenquote{"Tell him I know no greater man on earth."}{-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Carl Linnaeus} Your first moment, you look up at the big bright incandescent light. You file it under Item, Not Living, Macroscopic, Emits Light. How beautiful. You are hungry. You file it under Concept, Bodily Sensation, Unpleasant. Only then, you start to cry. Things must be filed. Such is your purpose. It is even better when you have a true dichotomous chart in which every two things are separated and every choice is meaningful. Creating this system is difficult. The world is too varied. It has too many exceptional cases. Still you must try. You try limiting the scope of the problem. You hope to expand upon it. You decide to start with creatures. At university, you are studying a system of classification for living things. It is inadequate. You invent your own because you must. It is beautiful. You are able to properly classify many more things. You go out and see the world, examine new creatures and plants and rocks and air and ideas. You take extensive notes, on the creatures and plants at least. You wander. You examine a plant. You have not seen this one before. You get out your sketchbook. You draw it in detail. You get out your notebook. You notate every feature of the plant in detail. You begin again. Yet still the world is messy, yet still there are more things to discover and classify, yet still some things exist outside your scheme. You must fix this. It is your purpose of being, what you were brought into the world to do. You work many years to find everything that exists. You have a need to collect knowledge. You cannot make a classification system for existence with an incomplete list of existence. Your journey to create a classification system for existence brings you here to the Place Without Recourse. You are not sure how. Ii Ma's voice always echoes through your consciousness here, traps you in this place. "**What makes knowledge empty?**" You cannot answer him. But you can classify him. Ii Ma is classified as Living Thing, Animal, Amphibious, Large, Squamous, Oozing, Fetch. But still his question traps you here. You are a Judge in the Place Without Recourse. You encourage plays that abide by strict rules. You support plays that introduce only such items as can be classified. The Place Without Recourse is a simpler place than the world. You can create a full classification scheme here. You decide on a few core categories. Items. Quests. People. Secrets. Many Isn'ts in the Place Without Recourse cannot be classified properly. You must banish any item which does not classify to staying an Isn't or to destruction or to residence in only the world, not the Place Without Recourse. The Ragged Things bring people here. The Ragged Things strand people in the Place Without Recourse. The Ragged Things choose who to bring without rhyme nor reason. You must fix it. People in the Place Without Recourse have answers. These answers are as tangible as any item. Those must also be categorized. Besides, perhaps they may free you from Ii Ma's question. Some things in the Place Without Recourse do not fit in your scheme. You must cast out anything that does not classify. You will clean up this place and save this place and rule this place. Strict rule is best for the Place Without Recourse. The people stranded here need someone to order things for them. You are perfect for the job. Your rules are logical and therefore just. Ruling this place is essential. And Ii Ma's messy, illogical reign ending, now is your chance to seize control. The world is mutable now, too; you can promote Science and reshape this place in the image of your charts and diagrams. To make this place the way it should be. Organized, categorized, understood. == Goals == * Take over the Place Without Recourse and impose strict rule, or become Minister of Ragged Things and force them to use strict criteria to determine who they abduct. * Document and categorize everything here. * Find a way to destroy things that defy categorization, or at least get them out of here. * Support logical Shows that follow strict, precise forms. * Encourage the Place Without Recourse to be more science-based. To accurately catalogue things, you need to get rid of some of this handwavy nonsense. Magic always messes with your logical classification systems. username: badgedesc: |- <> A Meticulous \mf{}{Woman} Scientist number: <> castinghint: | Your character is \name, a judge in the Place without Recourse. \mf{}{Also you're a woman, this place must be very weird.} Obsessed with finding everything and then fitting everything into your scientific classification for all things in the world, you can't allow things to exist that don't make sense in your scientific classification scheme. Costuming:\\ Dress as an 18th century academic. Suggested reading:\\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus wrapup: <> CR: <> password: <> status: Draft answers: | [[LinnaeusAnswer1]], [[LinnaeusAnswer2]] email: kimberly.beder@gmail.com