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* It did. It gave Charlie a good view of Slately being croaked giving him enough leverage to force the Ditto of him to follow through on his game plan to kill Parson.
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* Confirmed via ExactWords. Olive succeeded Judy as the Ruler of Haffaton, making her vulnerable to the prophecy.
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** My theory is that Ansom is a brilliant warlord when playing by the usual rules, but lacks Parson's lateral thinking, making him vulnerable to Parson and Charlie's tactics of rigging the game. His plan to capture Gobwin Knob would have succeeded if not for Parson's volcano trick, and his surprise attack on Spacerock would have succeeded with minimal losses and ended Jetstone as a side as planned, if not for Charlie and Jillian pulling [=KingWorld=].
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Why do I think this? For no other reason than the phrase "After Ten Thousand turns I am free, Time to Conquer Erf". Knowing the setting this would happen purely to make Parson groan.
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Why do I think this? For no other reason than the phrase [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers "After Ten Thousand turns I am free, Time to Conquer Erf".Erf"]]. Knowing the setting this would happen purely to make Parson groan.
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[[WMG: There will be an evil caster/Warlady that was sealed away, and as part of the side plot or main plot will be released]]
Why do I think this? For no other reason than the phrase "After Ten Thousand turns I am free, Time to Conquer Erf". Knowing the setting this would happen purely to make Parson groan.
Why do I think this? For no other reason than the phrase "After Ten Thousand turns I am free, Time to Conquer Erf". Knowing the setting this would happen purely to make Parson groan.
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* Perhaps Judy told Baum about her adventures in Erfworld, which served as the basis for the fictional Land of Oz?
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[[WMG: Ash-golem croakamancy-dirtamancy link-created units will appear which can be used as avatars from units in the City of Heroes.]]
So we can bring back Bogroll and dead decrypted units, even if they're ash-based ghosts, and finally put the theories about Bogroll coming back to rest by bringing him back and shoving him into a minor role. They will also be incredibly taxing to make even with Wanda using the Arkenpliers plus the inherent dangers of 3-caster linking, preventing this from being gamebreaking.
So we can bring back Bogroll and dead decrypted units, even if they're ash-based ghosts, and finally put the theories about Bogroll coming back to rest by bringing him back and shoving him into a minor role. They will also be incredibly taxing to make even with Wanda using the Arkenpliers plus the inherent dangers of 3-caster linking, preventing this from being gamebreaking.
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[[WMG: Charlie is a Titan's secret avatar, but the above WMG is still true.]]
He's either bored and wants to see what a peaceful Erfworld would look like or actively wants to end the world by causing a total victory, somehow. He is also a supreme Chessmaster and is playing an impressive gambit to end all gambits playing off every last mechanic and faction, while lying a lot about things. Carnymancy breaks the rules of Erfworld, which as a Titan trying to screw over the other Titans he would want to do. He attunes to the Arkendish and manages to pay for the large fleet of archons he gets from it with only one murderously defended level 5 city and lots of mercenary work, he could be using Titanic powers to make the Arkendish respond to a former user and an active cheat code to get nigh-infinite shmuckers. Yes, this wild mass guess was proposed entirely in response to the above "CHARLIE IS A TITAN" epileptic tree.
He's either bored and wants to see what a peaceful Erfworld would look like or actively wants to end the world by causing a total victory, somehow. He is also a supreme Chessmaster and is playing an impressive gambit to end all gambits playing off every last mechanic and faction, while lying a lot about things. Carnymancy breaks the rules of Erfworld, which as a Titan trying to screw over the other Titans he would want to do. He attunes to the Arkendish and manages to pay for the large fleet of archons he gets from it with only one murderously defended level 5 city and lots of mercenary work, he could be using Titanic powers to make the Arkendish respond to a former user and an active cheat code to get nigh-infinite shmuckers. Yes, this wild mass guess was proposed entirely in response to the above "CHARLIE IS A TITAN" epileptic tree.
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[[WMG: The Book of Retcon in-universe was written in response or otherwise afterwards to the Book of Fanon in-universe, at least partially.]]I don't know why, but why not?
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*This one is kind of jossed kind of confirmed? Peace Through Superior Firepower showed that Charlie's personality changed dramatically after attuning to the dish. This suggests that the Arkentools can normally alter their wielder's personality to match their own, so presumably this didn't happen with Wanda because her personality already fit. This may have happened for Stanley or he may have always been like that.
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[[WMG: Charlie intends to bring down the Titans.]]
* His primary goal seems to be building up his power so as to avoid Fate killing him via EquivalentExchange for his eariler survival. Since the Titans are the ones who arrange people's various Fates, this means he intends to defy them as well. When chatting with Parson about Toolism, his response to being called a Tool is "I'm nobody's tool." and when Parson specifies the Titans he says "... We'll see." Lastly, when rooting around in Jillian's mind, he takes an interest in destroying the mental jester she had, calling it the tool of the only enemy ever worth fighting. Said jester mainly acted as Jillian's internal compass guiding her towards acting like a Warlord, or in another sense, acting the way units like her need to behave in order to propagate the eternal war the Titans arranged Erfworld to be. Thus, the jester was an agent of the Titans/Fate. Considering Parson also has an interest in ending the ceaseless conflict, this could result in a team up when Charlie's real goals are revealed.
* His primary goal seems to be building up his power so as to avoid Fate killing him via EquivalentExchange for his eariler survival. Since the Titans are the ones who arrange people's various Fates, this means he intends to defy them as well. When chatting with Parson about Toolism, his response to being called a Tool is "I'm nobody's tool." and when Parson specifies the Titans he says "... We'll see." Lastly, when rooting around in Jillian's mind, he takes an interest in destroying the mental jester she had, calling it the tool of the only enemy ever worth fighting. Said jester mainly acted as Jillian's internal compass guiding her towards acting like a Warlord, or in another sense, acting the way units like her need to behave in order to propagate the eternal war the Titans arranged Erfworld to be. Thus, the jester was an agent of the Titans/Fate. Considering Parson also has an interest in ending the ceaseless conflict, this could result in a team up when Charlie's real goals are revealed.
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[[WMG: Stupidworld is the City Of Heroes.]]
* When an Erfworld unit croaks or disbands, then if it did its Duty well enough (or has a high enough Score if the scorists are correct) it reincarnates as a newly-conceived Stupidworlder, losing its memory in the process. Thus, the resemblances between Stupidworld and Erfworld are rooted in the fact that one is founded from the other.
** Alternately, all Erfworlders reincarnate as Stupidworlders, but their Service in Erfworld determines the quality of their starting circumstances in Stupidworld. So a Dutiful and heroic unit reincarnates as a child of a loving American couple with enough money and luxuries, while a cowardly or treacherous unit reincarnates as the child of a single mother in some Third World slum.
* When an Erfworld unit croaks or disbands, then if it did its Duty well enough (or has a high enough Score if the scorists are correct) it reincarnates as a newly-conceived Stupidworlder, losing its memory in the process. Thus, the resemblances between Stupidworld and Erfworld are rooted in the fact that one is founded from the other.
** Alternately, all Erfworlders reincarnate as Stupidworlders, but their Service in Erfworld determines the quality of their starting circumstances in Stupidworld. So a Dutiful and heroic unit reincarnates as a child of a loving American couple with enough money and luxuries, while a cowardly or treacherous unit reincarnates as the child of a single mother in some Third World slum.
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[[WMG: Cross-disciplinary single-caster spells exist that are only loosely anchored in a home discipline]]
This would help solve why so many disciplines were needed to Summon Perfect Warlord and so few casters can be linked. Examples include:
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[[WMG: Cross-disciplinary single-caster spells exist exist]]
Mostly spells that act somewhat like a different discipline but areonly loosely anchored based in a home discipline]]
the caster's specialty instead. This would help solve why so many disciplines were needed to Summon Perfect Warlord and so few casters can be linked.linked: They just combined spells that emulate other disciplines within their own to mix the master spell. Examples include:
Mostly spells that act somewhat like a different discipline but are
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This would help solve why so many disciplines were needed to Summon Perfect Warlord and so few casters can be linked. Examples include:
* Ephedra, a Thinkamancy-but-with-Healomancy spell as it appears to actually have a restorative effect independent of mental capabilities
* Possibly the interlocking spell array on the pagoda in one of Faq's cities, a combination of Shockamancy and the other disciplines Faq had available, such as a Predictamancer's ability to easily Predict if a shot will hit and autonomously decide to take it or not
* Love spells, considering they appear to be a handful of Hippiemancy effects but casters still have discussions as to Love itself being anywhere else on the magic system if at all
* Golem creation of certain materials, as there appear to be at least two disciplines (Dollamancy and Dirtamancy) capable of golem manufacturing from different materials
This would help solve why so many disciplines were needed to Summon Perfect Warlord and so few casters can be linked. Examples include:
* Ephedra, a Thinkamancy-but-with-Healomancy spell as it appears to actually have a restorative effect independent of mental capabilities
* Possibly the interlocking spell array on the pagoda in one of Faq's cities, a combination of Shockamancy and the other disciplines Faq had available, such as a Predictamancer's ability to easily Predict if a shot will hit and autonomously decide to take it or not
* Love spells, considering they appear to be a handful of Hippiemancy effects but casters still have discussions as to Love itself being anywhere else on the magic system if at all
* Golem creation of certain materials, as there appear to be at least two disciplines (Dollamancy and Dirtamancy) capable of golem manufacturing from different materials
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[[WMG: Charlie has or at least had a male Archon named Bosley]]
Charlie already started as a Charlie's Angels joke. Might as well go for broke. Maybe it's one of his golems.
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[[WMG: Parson's friends from Earth will be summoned]]
Possibly to be used as leverage against him, and likely by Charlie.
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** It must be noted that this is the film version we are talking about, not the book. In the book, the slippers were gold representing America being on the gold standard at the time.
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** It must be noted that this is the film version we are talking about, not the book. In the book, the slippers were gold representing America being on the gold standard at the time.
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[[WMG: Charlie's "Return To Stupidworld" Scroll will be used on him]]
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Parson thinks that Judy couldn't be from his world because it shares too many parallels with the Film/WizardOfOz. He may think that she went back into the STORY of the Wizard of Oz, but Rob changed Gale's name from Dorothy to Judy and much of the story is different from the Wizard of Oz. Since we are talking about the film version (given the shoes are gold, not ruby, in the book), then it would have to be coincidental or else the story could easily become Film/ReturnToOz which it does not seem to be in the process of doing.
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** It must be noted that this is the film version we are talking about, not the book. In the book, the slippers were gold representing America being on the gold standard at the time.
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* Mentioned in-story now; Parson was expecting the fourth Arkentool to be the Arkensaw, and is both disappointed and astonished to learn it was the Arkenshoes, aka the "Ruby Slippers" from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''
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**** The Masterminds or some other group will use a link up to locate the Arkenshoes (since they are a known item) to try to get Parson to attune or some such. They will use spells similar to the "Summon Perfect Warlord" spell to get the shoes or Judy back. Maybe they contact someone like Parson's friends or Judy herself. Either way, they both have reasons to find and send the shoes back.
**** The problem resolved itself. The shoes made it half way to the our world, stopped, left Judy's feet, and repopped in Erfworld. Corollary: They got stuck in time and repopped at the entrance of another "Summon Perfect Warlord" portal. Meaning that they could have respawned in our world where Parson was teleported out because Judy and Parson are from the same world and the shoes can be used to travel between worlds. It linked up naturally to the portal that brought Parson to Erfworld and popped there, right into Parson's friends' hands. Arguably, the people who needed them the most.
**** The problem resolved itself. The shoes made it half way to the our world, stopped, left Judy's feet, and repopped in Erfworld. Corollary: They got stuck in time and repopped at the entrance of another "Summon Perfect Warlord" portal. Meaning that they could have respawned in our world where Parson was teleported out because Judy and Parson are from the same world and the shoes can be used to travel between worlds. It linked up naturally to the portal that brought Parson to Erfworld and popped there, right into Parson's friends' hands. Arguably, the people who needed them the most.
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**** Three: The Masterminds or some other group will use a link up to locate the Arkenshoes (since they are a known item) to try to get Parson to attune or some such. They will use spells similar to the "Summon Perfect Warlord" spell to get the shoes or Judy back. Maybe they contact someone like Parson's friends or Judy herself. Either way, they both have reasons to find and send the shoes back.
**** Four: The problem resolved itself. The shoes made it half way to the our world, stopped, left Judy's feet, and repopped in Erfworld. Corollary: They got stuck in time and repopped at the entrance of another "Summon Perfect Warlord" portal. Meaning that they could have respawned in our world where Parson was teleported out because Judy and Parson are from the same world and the shoes can be used to travel between worlds. It linked up naturally to the portal that brought Parson to Erfworld and popped there, right into Parson's friends' hands. Arguably, the people who needed them the most.
**** Four: The problem resolved itself. The shoes made it half way to the our world, stopped, left Judy's feet, and repopped in Erfworld. Corollary: They got stuck in time and repopped at the entrance of another "Summon Perfect Warlord" portal. Meaning that they could have respawned in our world where Parson was teleported out because Judy and Parson are from the same world and the shoes can be used to travel between worlds. It linked up naturally to the portal that brought Parson to Erfworld and popped there, right into Parson's friends' hands. Arguably, the people who needed them the most.
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* [[spoiler: Judy spared Charlie's life and returned home, so he has to be a real person.]]
* [[spoiler: Judy spared Charlie's life and returned home, so he has to be a real person.]]
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*** Corollary: Rob will use Parson's friends for this or the problem could solve itself. There are several ways this could go down. Tropers/Thecommander236 [[note]]note(put [[note]](put your name but by your theory)[[/note]]
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*** Corollary: Rob will use Parson's friends for this or the problem could solve itself. There are several ways this could go down. Tropers/Thecommander236 [[note]]note(put your name but your theory)[[/note]]
**** One: His friends are arrested for conspiracy to murder and dispose of a body since they were with Parson when he disappeared and whose going to believe this is possible and not bring these people in? The news goes national and people start a huge man-hunt to solve the mystery, Parson's parents go on the news and plead for people to help, and his friends will claim their innocence insist that he disappeared immediately upon his wish. Judy Gale will see the report, fly over, talk to and maybe bail out one of his friends, and get the full story. She will then use her shoes to get back to Erfworld to clear his friends' names, because she knows how hard it is to get home and he may not know they are in trouble.
**** Two: His friend's, in a panic, will know logically that they will be blamed for the disappearance and work feverishly to get him back, plus they are more concerned about him then they initially let on. They will believe anything related to the case and, since they are nerds, they may have certain websites online to look through to try to friend someone who know anything about what happened. They come across a supposedly insane person, on a conspiracy theory website or some such, called Judy Gale and contact her out of desperation, but this particular person has the Arkenshoes and a means to prove her story...
**** The Masterminds or some other group will use a link up to locate the Arkenshoes (since they are a known item) to try to get Parson to attune or some such. They will use spells similar to the "Summon Perfect Warlord" spell to get the shoes or Judy back. Maybe they contact someone like Parson's friends or Judy herself. Either way, they both have reasons to find and send the shoes back.
**** The problem resolved itself. The shoes made it half way to the our world, stopped, left Judy's feet, and repopped in Erfworld. Corollary: They got stuck in time and repopped at the entrance of another "Summon Perfect Warlord" portal. Meaning that they could have respawned in our world where Parson was teleported out because Judy and Parson are from the same world and the shoes can be used to travel between worlds. It linked up naturally to the portal that brought Parson to Erfworld and popped there, right into Parson's friends' hands. Arguably, the people who needed them the most.
**** One: His friends are arrested for conspiracy to murder and dispose of a body since they were with Parson when he disappeared and whose going to believe this is possible and not bring these people in? The news goes national and people start a huge man-hunt to solve the mystery, Parson's parents go on the news and plead for people to help, and his friends will claim their innocence insist that he disappeared immediately upon his wish. Judy Gale will see the report, fly over, talk to and maybe bail out one of his friends, and get the full story. She will then use her shoes to get back to Erfworld to clear his friends' names, because she knows how hard it is to get home and he may not know they are in trouble.
**** Two: His friend's, in a panic, will know logically that they will be blamed for the disappearance and work feverishly to get him back, plus they are more concerned about him then they initially let on. They will believe anything related to the case and, since they are nerds, they may have certain websites online to look through to try to friend someone who know anything about what happened. They come across a supposedly insane person, on a conspiracy theory website or some such, called Judy Gale and contact her out of desperation, but this particular person has the Arkenshoes and a means to prove her story...
**** The Masterminds or some other group will use a link up to locate the Arkenshoes (since they are a known item) to try to get Parson to attune or some such. They will use spells similar to the "Summon Perfect Warlord" spell to get the shoes or Judy back. Maybe they contact someone like Parson's friends or Judy herself. Either way, they both have reasons to find and send the shoes back.
**** The problem resolved itself. The shoes made it half way to the our world, stopped, left Judy's feet, and repopped in Erfworld. Corollary: They got stuck in time and repopped at the entrance of another "Summon Perfect Warlord" portal. Meaning that they could have respawned in our world where Parson was teleported out because Judy and Parson are from the same world and the shoes can be used to travel between worlds. It linked up naturally to the portal that brought Parson to Erfworld and popped there, right into Parson's friends' hands. Arguably, the people who needed them the most.
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[[WMG: Duke Adam Antium Beliefs]]
It seems the good Duke didn't change much as a result of his decryption. He wasn't driven insane like Sylvia, he wasn't as conflicted as Ossomer, and he wasn't as wild a card as Jack Snipe. His beliefs in scorism could have possible kept him stable in the transition. He does call Wanda "mistress," he currently believes that Jetstone was in its death throes contrary to his confidence from before, and he believes his title "Duke" may now be useless, but he seems relatively chill about the whole being killed and decrypted thing. He still hates Duke Lacrosse for reasons he doesn't understand, he still believes in scorism, he still thinks that he held himself as a nobleman should despite the fact that royalty is supposed to be seen as obsolete by his side, etc. His belief in scorism may have been amplified given his statements, but, yeah, his initial attitude on life seemed to keep him stable. One of two things could happen: he becomes a reliable and trustworthy source to Parson regardless that he's supposed to be under "Mistress" Wanda's will or he turns back to Jetstone with little pomp or circumstance because, as he says, "It was (his) duty, either way," meaning he does what he thinks is right no matter what side he's on. I have a feeling he can either resist Wanda or turn at any time due to this belief system.
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Both Toolists and Royalists are playing by the Titans' rules. Parson's ultimate battle will be to reject the Titans, help the Erfworlders claim the world as their own, and find some way of breaking the rules so much that the Titans lose their power. Both of the Titanic factions (Toolist and Royalist) will reject this (although whether they will put aside their differences and make peace with each other to stop Parson is another question -- most likely not). On the other hand, Parson will not be without allies who see that there is more to what's right than the Titans' will. Sizemore is one probable ally, along with Janis. Other less expected allies might be Ossomer[[hottip:*:Who said, Book 2 Page 3, that if the Titans were on the side of Wanda, Charlie, and Stanley, the Titans were wrong (which demonstrates a rejection of the divine command theory of metaethics), and who possibly showed Book 2 Page 73 that he could break decryption's influence.]] and Charlie [[hottip:*:Charlie may be a mercenary (but then, even Banhammer's Faq did some mercenary work), but if all he cared about were his own power and wealth, he would have probably conquered some cities beyond [=CharlesComm=] (although, being smarter than Stanley, he wouldn't take on the whole world at once), so perhaps, in addition to having no affinity for Royalism or Toolism, he has some desire for peace.]].
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Both Toolists and Royalists are playing by the Titans' rules. Parson's ultimate battle will be to reject the Titans, help the Erfworlders claim the world as their own, and find some way of breaking the rules so much that the Titans lose their power. Both of the Titanic factions (Toolist and Royalist) will reject this (although whether they will put aside their differences and make peace with each other to stop Parson is another question -- most likely not). On the other hand, Parson will not be without allies who see that there is more to what's right than the Titans' will. Sizemore is one probable ally, along with Janis. Other less expected allies might be Ossomer[[hottip:*:Who Ossomer[[note]]Who said, Book 2 Page 3, that if the Titans were on the side of Wanda, Charlie, and Stanley, the Titans were wrong (which demonstrates a rejection of the divine command theory of metaethics), and who possibly showed Book 2 Page 73 that he could break decryption's influence.]] [[/note]] and Charlie [[hottip:*:Charlie [[note]]Charlie may be a mercenary (but then, even Banhammer's Faq did some mercenary work), but if all he cared about were his own power and wealth, he would have probably conquered some cities beyond [=CharlesComm=] (although, being smarter than Stanley, he wouldn't take on the whole world at once), so perhaps, in addition to having no affinity for Royalism or Toolism, he has some desire for peace.]].[[/note]].
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